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INDEX TO CONTENTS. 



PART I. — THE EXPOSITION. 

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Agriculture, Horticulture, etc 22 

Amusements 32 

Architecture 12 

Art Exhibit 20 

Bee Industries 22 

Conventions for 1898 39 

Department of Exhibits 18 

Electricity 22 

Exhibitors' Agency 18 

Fisheries 24 

Government and State Participation 10 

Indian Exhibit 30 

Irrigation 29 

Live Stock and Dairy 22 

Machinery 24 

Manufactures and Foreign Section 24 

Military Encampment 32 

Hines and Mining 24 

Music 26 

Officers of the Exposition 40 

Origin and Government 9 

Site. The 12 

Transportation 29 

Woman's Department 26 



PART II. --OMAHA. 

Amusements 76 

Art in Omaha 72 

Banks and Banking 86 

Blocks and Buildings 132 

Cemeteries 132 



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Churches 126 

City Government 58 

Clubs 80 

Council Bluffs 57 

Distances from Omaha 142 

Educational Institutions 64 

Express Companies 120 

Freight Depots 120 

Government Building 84 

Hack Ordinance 78 

History of Omaha 47 

Hospitals 114 

Hotels and Boarding- Houses 124 

Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben 80 

Libraries 62 

Lodges and Societies 82 

Manufacturing 92 

Map of Omaha 143 

Military Organizations 112 

Missouri River. 54 

Nebraska 53 

Newspapers and Periodicals 85 

Parks and Boulevards 104 

Passenger Stations 120 

Picnic Grounds 79 

Population 59 

Public Halls 135 

Public Improvements 59 

Real Estate ■ 87 

Residences 110 

Retail Business 88 

Signal Service 84 

Stock Yards 102 

Street and Avenue Directory 137 

Street Directory ... 141 

Street Railways 135 

Ticket Offices 119 

Trans-Mississippi States 54 

Transportation 118 

Union Pacific in Nebraska 56 

Viaducts and Bridges 122 

Water Supply 60 

Wholesale Interests 91 

Woman's Club 66 

Young Men's Christian Association 68 

Young- Woman's Christian Association 68 



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International Exposition. 



ORIGIN AM) GOVERNMENT. 

The Trans-Mississippi Commercial Congress in convention 
at Omaha in 1895, formulated the following* declaration, which 
was introduced by its president, the Hon. \V. J. Bryan : 

"Win- keas. We believe that an exposition of all the products, 
industries and civilization of the states west of the Mississippi 
river, made at 30me central gateway where the world can behold 
the wonderful capabilities of these great wealth producing 
states, would be of great value, not only to the Trans-Mississippi 
states, but to all the home seekers in the world; therefore, 

Resolved, That tin- United Stat.--> Congress he requested to 
take such »t<-p^ as may he necessary to hold a Trans-Mississippi 
Exposition at Omaha in the Near 1898, and that the representa- 
tives of such states and territories in Congress be requested to 
favor such an appropriation as i-. usual in such cases to assist in 
carrying out this enterprise. ' 

The citizens of Omaha, thoroughly alive to the importance 
of this great undertaking, immediately took steps to carry out 
the ideas embodied in this resolution. 

A temporary organization was at once effected and in 
January of the following year articles of incorporation of the 
Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition Association, 
signed by one hundred of the substantial business and profes- 
sional men of Omaha, were filed with the secretary of state. 
This corporation is capitalized at Si. 000.000 and its g-overnment 
is vested in a board of fifty resident directors. Its officers con- 



sist of a president, vice president, secretary, and treasurer, with 
an additional vice president for each Trans-Mississippi state 
and territory. 

For convenience in conducting - the immense amount of busi- 
ness which necessarily arises, the following- departments were 
formed : Ways and Means, Publicity and Promotion, Buildings 
and Grounds, Exhibits, Concessions and Privileges, and Trans- 
portation. The managers of these departments were chosen 
from and by the board of directors for especial fitness in their 
respective departments and they collectively form the executive 
committee. 

GOVERNMENT AND STATE PARTICIPATION. 

According to an act of Congress passed in 1896, the Trans- 
Mississippi and International Exposition was granted recogni- 
tion as a national and international exhibition, with the 
attendant rights to import exhibits free of duty, to strike 
memorial medals through the mints, and to enjoy all privileges 
heretofore extended to international expositions. The bill car- 
ried an appropriation of $200,000 for the erection of a govern- 
ment building and the placing of a suitable government exhibit 
therein. By direction of the President, the State Department 
has extended invitations to all the governments in the civilized 
world, to prepare exhibits and take part in the Exposition. The 
Postoffice Department has authorized the issue of a new series of 
postage stamps of nine denominations in honor of the occasion 
and the designs are typical of the settlement and early history 
of the western country, which this Exposition is held to com- 
memorate. 

Aside from the stock subscriptions and the government 
appropriation, vast sums will be expended b}- the various states 
of the Union, foreign governments, societies, and individual 
exhibitors. Nebraska has appropriated $100,000, Douglas County 
$100,000, and the City of Omaha through its park board will 
probably expend a like sum in improving and beautifying the 
Exposition grounds. Iowa made a preliminary appropriation of 
$10,000 in 1896, which will probably be increased to $50,000 within 
the next few weeks. Illinois appropriated $45,000, Montana will 
have $30,000 at its disposal; Missouri, while without a state 
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citizens, making- an active effort to eclipse all other states in its 
great display of products. Wisconsin, Georgia and other eastern 
and southern states will have large and handsome building's, 
wherein to the best advantage to display their manufacturing-, 
agricultural and mineral resources, while South Dakota, Wyom- 
ing-, Utah, Colorado, California, Texas, and in fact almost 
every single Trans-Mississippi state is making- collections and 
preparing exhibits for the most extensive exhibition of minerals, 
live stock, fruit and agricultural products that was ever g-athered 
tog-ether in the history of the world. 

THE SITE. 

The main part of the Exposition lies slig-htly more than a 
mile north of the business center of the cit\-. Three of the main 
street car lines go directly to one each of the three main 
entrances, while the Belt L,ine connects it with all of the railroads 
which enter Omaha. Kountze tract, 670 feet wide and about 
half a mile in leng-th, is the site of the main group of building 
To the east and at right angles with the Kountze tract and con- 
nected with it b}- a viaduct, lies the bluff tract, about sixty 
acres in area, stretching along the bluffs and overlooking 
the Missouri river. This will be devoted to state buildings and 
concessions. The remainder of the Exposition grounds, consist- 
ing of about eighty acres, lies north of the Kountze tract and 
west of Sherman Avenue, and is connected with the bluff tract 
by a second viaduct. Here will be found the live stock exhibit, 
and the model irrigation and beet sugar fields, and here the 
amphitheatre, race course and atheletic fields will be located. 
At the south side of this division will be the space devoted to 
concessionaries, extending across the viaduct into the bluff tract 
on the east, and south from the western end to the grand court. 
The irregularity of the Exposition grounds presented opportuni- 
ties for great variety in architectural and landscape gardening 
effects which add greatly to the beauty to the general plan. 

ARCHITECTURE. 

A fancy seems to be more or less prevalent, judging from 
some of the written and spoken comments on the Trans-Missis- 
sippi Exposition plan, that it largely drew its inspiration from 
the scheme employed at Chicago. "Influence of Chicago' 1 — 

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"reminiscences of the White City 7 ' — "revival of the Columbian 
scheme" — and so on, have become rather tiresome phrases in 
connection with the coming- event. This, however, was bound 
to be the fate of e\ ery important exhibition since Chicago mad< 
her memorable display. 

In certain particulars it is quite true that the Trans-Missis- 
sippi scheme recalls that of the World's Fair ■ — such particulars 
as every exhibition of the kind must have in order to exist suo 
cessfulh^. That is, it includes buildings, staff-covered and filled 
with exhibits ; grounds, set forth with grass and trees, an< 
further embellished by a sheet of water ; various provisions foi 
the comfort of visitors ; the whole enclosed by a fence, with turn- 
stiles for entrance and exit. But here the likeness ends, 
comparison of Trans-Mississippi plans and views with those 
published in magazines, etc., during the development of the 
Columbian Exposition, shows to even an ordinal eye the entire 
dissimilarity of the two schemes, as well as of their individual 
buildings and features. It was not any lack of admiration for 
Chicago's splendid achievement that led the architects-in-chie1 
of the Trans-Mississippi Exposition, Messrs. "Walker & Kimball, 
to rel}- on their own creative powers for the designing of this 
latest plan. There was really no reason why it should not be ai 
entirely original one, depending on no preceding- one whatever 
for its inspiration ; and this is precisely what has resulted. 

To begin with, our exposition is not on so large a scale as 
that of Chicago, though very much larger than those of Nash- 
ville and Atlanta. It is also far more symmetrical and has 
more of a "central idea" than an) r of its predecessors, as ; 
glance at its plan will show. The lagoon, of a beautiful an< 
unique form, was evolved out of dry land by clever engineering, 
and is fed from an artesian well and the city water works. Its 
development at the western end into a broad clover-leaf shape, 
gracef ully suggests the place of honor for the United States 
Building, where that representative of our government finds th( 
best point of view as well as the site most appropriate to its 
official dignity. This, by the way, is the first instance where the 
government headquarters have been given their proper pre- 
cedence over other buildings at an exposition. 

It may be said in passing that this building is far superior 
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remembered, failed *o meet the expectations of connoisseurs ii 
architecture. This end of the lagoon, called the Mirror, is th< 
most important point on the grounds; and it is from this locality 
that the best view of the exposition is to be had. 

Looking from the Government front, the eye travels along 
the lagoon, about a half mile in length, between two rows of the 
majestic buildings, forming the main court, and finds a resting 
point on the flowered and pinnacled terraces at the opposite end 
before crossing the viaduct to the bluff, a picturesque bit of lane 
rich in festal attractions, with the Missouri lying between it anc 
sunrise. 

From that beautiful group of buildings clustered about the 
lagoon, it would be hard to single out any one for special praisi 
above its fellows. They are all correctly classic in design — a 
point of likeness to the Columbian plan ; but instead of the 
brilliant uniform whiteness of those structures, these are daintily 
decorated in color with occasional gleams of gold, the staff sur- 
face, even when plain, being given a warm creamy or ivory tint 
less trying to the eye than the dead white of marble or its imita- 
tion. To many tastes, the varied colorings of past Paris exposi- 
tions, were much more gratifying than the snowy walls of the 
famous White City. 

The Agriculture Building is one which will draw great atten- 
tion for the richness and originality of its ornament, no less than 
for its very beautiful proportions. The free use of common 
farm yard motives — turkeys, ducks, and the like, — in its orna- 
mentation will prove most taking to the popular fancy, while 
this freedom has not interfered a whit with the closest adherence 
to the canons of classic architecture. 

The Fine Arts Building is distinguished by an open-air 
court, dividing the edifice into two sections — "Twin Buildings" 
so called ; and will be in its scholarly and graceful treatment, 
a fit setting for the collection of artistic gems that is now 
assured. The sculpture surmounting all the buildings is notable 
for its strength of conception and execution. A list of the 
architects for the several buildings comprising the main group, 
who were carefully chosen as representatives of the profession 
in different western cities by the architects-in-chief, include : 
Cass Gilbert, of St. Paul ; Eames & Young, of St. Iyouis ; J. J. 
Humphreys, of Denver; S. S. Bemaii, of Chicago; Dwight 

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Perkins, of Chicago; FisherJ & Laurie, and. Charles -F. Bein- 
dorf, of Omaha. The manner in which the)' have acquitted 
themselves, as shown in their buildings, makes comment on 
their choice superfluous. 

The two arches facing- each other across the lagoon are 
especially individual in their character, and yet wholly unlike 
each other. The Administration Arch, a building- to be used as 
headquarters for the Exposition officials, is perhaps the most 
striking- of the two, and more markedly foreign in its air, being 
akin to many European monuments of the arch form and having 
a certain Gallic grace about its airy headpiece of spires, that 
will appeal to the trained eye of travelers. The Arch of the 
States, not yet erected, will furnish the state entrance and be a 
permanent momento of 1898. This arch is simple and stately in 
outline, intended to be built from very light stone of uniform 
tint, with a frieze of enamels, showing the coats-of-arms of the 
Trans-Mississippi states in colors. 

It is safe to predict, that the exquisite Miniature City, with 
its display of curious and attractive exhibits gathered from both 
near and distant lands, will cause a thrill of delighted amaze- 
ment to many thousands of people for whom this section of 
our continent has heretofore been the great unexplored Ameri- 
can desert. 

DEPARTMENT OF EXHIBITS. 

This department is under the direction and control of Mr. E. 
E. Bruce as manager, with Mr. H. B. Hardt as assistant. Different 
divisions of its work are carried on by bureaus, independent one 
of another, but all subject to the jurisdiction of the department 
itself. The bureaus are: Fine Arts ; Education; Agriculture: 
Horticulture, Floriculture, Forestry and Irrigation ; Live Stock 
and Dairy ; Bee Industries ; Transportation ; Manufactures and 
Foreign Section ; Machinery ; Electricity ; Mines and Mining ; 
and Fisheries. 

EXHIBITORS' AGENCY. 

This agency has been organized with Mr. O. C. Holmes as 
manager, for the purpose of giving facilities to such exhibitors 
as do not wish to place special representatives in charge of their 
exhibits. 

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ART EXHIBIT. 

The collection of the Art Exhibit at the Trans-Mississippi 
and International Exposition has been placed in the hands of 
Mr. A. H. Griffith, now director of the Detroit Museum of Art. 
with an Advisory Board, consisting- of the directors of the Western 
Art Association, with Mr. Paul Charlton as its chairman. 

Active work has been going - on in connection with it since 
the summer of 1897, and the results already secured, promise to 
carry out fully the idea with which it was begun, viz : That the 
collection of pictures should be thoroughly representative, wide 
in scope and of the highest excellence possible to be secured in 
the available collections, public and private, in this country, and 
from artists and collections abroad. Honorary commissioners 
have been appointed for most of the states and foreign countries, 
among them M. Ferd. Meyer, Paris; Rollsshoeven, England; De 
Groote for Holland and Belgium: General Crosby, Massachusetts; 
Cyrus J. Eawrence, Esq., for New York; Daniel Baugh, Esq., for 
Pennsylvania; R. Hall McCormick, Esq., for Illinois, and many 
others similarly well known in business and artistic circles. 
Provision has been made for the absolute protection of the more 
important pictures in fire and burglar proof vaults, and the twin 
buildings in which the collections will be housed, were designed 
by Messrs. Eames & Young, of St. Louis, to give the most per- 
fect fire protection and at the same time wall space and lighting 
far more adequate than has housed any recent permanent or 
temporary exhibit. Instead of medals and diplomas, usually so 
little desired by artists, there is a guarantee fund for the pur- 
chase of at least $5,000 worth of pictures shown at this exhibi- 
tion, which meets the desires of exhibitors, both domestic and 
foreign. In addition to oil and water-color paintings, and 
pastels, there will be a large exhibit of old masters in the modern 
photographic reproductions; an important exhibit of the modern 
methods of fine art reproduction, and the exhibit of mural car- 
toons and paintings promises to be the most important yet shown 
in the United States. The cut of the building gives an adequate 
idea both of its architecture an extent. 

Communications in regard to the Fine Arts Exhibit should 
be addressed to Mr. A. H. Griffith, up to April 1, 1898, at Detroit, 
Mich.; after that date at Omaha, Nebraska. 

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BUREAU OF AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE, 
FLORICULTURE, FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION. 

Under the care of this bureau all sorts of modern appliances 
of agriculture will be exhibited, while agricultural products will 
be displayed in a way to demonstrate their respective values in 
the Trans-Mississippi region. In this connection, an irrigating 
exhibit in operation has been planned to cover ten acres. The 
Horticultural Building is one of the most beautiful and extensive 
on the grounds and will practically demonstrate the magnitude 
and promise of the fruit-growing industries of the Great "West. 
This bureau is collectively under the superintendency of Prof. 
F. W. Taylor. 

BUREAU OF LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 

Hon. J. B. Dinsmore is commissioner of this bureau, which 
has live stock and poultrj r exhibits so planned as to offer features 
of interest throughout the Exposition period. The relative 
values of different breeds of milch cows will be tested by the 
manufacture of butter and cheese in the Dairy Building. All 
live stock exhibits will be held in the months of September and 
October. 

BUREAU OF BEE INDUSTRIES. 

In the Apiary Building will be arranged exhibits of great 
value to bee keepers, from hive and flower to the honey ready for 
shipment. Its interest to the visitor is assured by the commis- 
sioner for this bureau, Hon. E. Whitcomb. 

BUREAU OF ELECTRICITY. 

This bureau is under the direction of Prof. R. B. Owens. 
Special exhibits of electrical interest in this section will be of 
electricity in agricultural work ; long distance power trans- 
mission ; Recent application of electricity in power distribution ; 
electricity in mining ; electro-metallurgical processes ; long 
distance telephony. Other features of interest will be search 
lights, high frequency and high potential apparatus, electricity 
for domestic use and the transmission of intelligence by Hertzen 
waves. 

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BUREAU OF MANUFACTURES AND FOREIGN 
SECTION. 

Over these two bureaus the department has retained exclusive 
control, both to preserve harmony in the classification and 
grouping- of the immense variety of exhibits, and to insure 
foreign exhibits equal consideration with those of domestic 
origin. 

BUREAU OF MACHINERY. 

In the Machinery Building will be found all kinds of useful 
machinery, much of it in actual operation and driven by elec- 
tricity transmitted by belt or wire from the Power Plant Annex, 
whose powerful engines constitute in themselves a wonderful 
exhibit. While there will be an extensive exhibit of mining and 
other machinery used in the Trans-Mississippi country, the dis- 
play will by no means be confined to that class. All the recent 
inventions and improvements in machinery of all kinds will be 
in evidence. Prof. C. R. Richards is commissioner of the 
Machinery Bureau. 

BUREAU OF MINES AND MINING. 

This bureau has charge of the display of ores and minerals, 
of live exhibits illustrative of the process of metal-refining, etc. 
The Mines and Mining Building will far outrank in the size and 
variety of its exhibits anything of the kind heretofore seen in 
this or any other country, and will demonstrate the position of 
the Trans-Mississippi region among the foremost of mineral 
producing countries. 

BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 

Upon the recommendation of Hon. W. L,. May, U. S. fish 
commissioner for the Nebraska district, the United States Gov- 
ernment has consented to take charge of the fisheries exhibits, 
and by a series of grottos and cases of glass will make a display 
which, for purposes of beauty as well as of instruction, has never 
been surpassed by any exposition of pisciculture. 

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MUSIC. 

The elaborate musical programs that are now being- prepared 
will insure the grandest musical, festival, continuing from the 
opening to the closing day, that was ever known in the West. 
It is intended to make this one of the strong points of the Expo- 
sition and it is certain from the proposals already received that 
this will be an occasion long to be remembered as the grandest 
musical entertainment that the highest talent of this and 
foreign countries can produce. While at this writing dates can- 
not be given it is an assured fact that the most noted bands and 
orchestras of Germany, France, England and other foreign 
countries will be present, among them the famous Mexican 
Military Band. The greatest soloists from all countries, includ- 
ing Italy, Austria, and Germany will participate while oratorios 
and grand operas will be presented on the most elaborate scale. 
There will be a vast assemblage of the Swedish singing societies 
of this country and choruses of thousands of voices will be given. 



WOMAN'S DEPARTMENT. 

The Woman's Department consists of two representatives 
from each of the six congressional districts of Nebraska, with 
eleven fiom Omaha, two from South Omaha, and two from 
Council Bluffs, Iowa. It has charge of the educational features 
of the Exposition both as to exhibits and congresses on educa- 
tional, scientific, and philosophical subjects, and of various 
classes of woman's work. 

There is to be no woman's building, as the department is of 
the opinion that there is no occasion in this age of the world for 
separating the work of men and women, but there will be a 
building devoted to the use of girls and boys, and this will be 
under the jurisdiction of the Woman's Board. 

Although the funds for the erection of the Girls' and Boys' 
Building have been contributed by the children and young 
people of the Trans-Mississippi region, the work of collecting 
them has been accomplished by women to the number of several 
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merit as patronesses, and who have gathered the contributions 
from their respective neighborhoods. 

The building will contain a hall where lectures and addresses 
will be given, where children may be entertained, and where 
they will in turn entertain their friends, and where various new 
ideas in the line of school and class work will be elaborated 
through living exhibits. It will have a creche where young 
children may be cared for and a restaurant where wholesome 
food of a sort suitable to children will be provided. The build- 
ing will also contain exhibits of interest not only to boys and 
girls, but to parents and teachers. 

The educational exhibits will be of two classes : Collective 
exhibits from schools, and individual competitions by enrolled 
pupils. Under the first-class some very interesting collections 
of school work will be shown. The Nebraska Exposition Com- 
mission has purchased space sufficient for the exhibit of the 
school resources of the state, and collegiate institutions, special, 
professional, and technical schools will be well represented. 

Under individual competitions a series of topics is suggested 
in six lines of work, viz: Histor3% composition, penmanship, 
drawing, manual training, and nature study. These have been 
arranged for all grades and ages, from the kindergarten to the 
universit)'. The exhibit is entered in the name of the pupil, 
upon an entrv fee of twent^vfive cents. When the competitions 
close, April 15th, the awards of gold, silver and bronze medals 
will be made, and exhibits winning prizes will be placed in the 
Exposition without further charge. 

The Congress Committee will endeavor to provide, through 
a series of programmes, for the discussion of some of the topics 
of public interest, which are not represented in the various con- 
ventions which are to be held in connection with the Exposition. 
Several days will be given to the consideration of art, subdivided 
as may seem feasible, but with sessions devoted especially to 
architecture and ceramics. Music will be given a congress of 
from three to five days. Literature will embrace an Authors' 
Congress and a Librarians' Conference. Public matters will be 
considered under at least two heads : Municipal Problems and 
Public Health. Philantropy will receive attention through a 
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gress of Liberal Religions, as well as one for the consideration 
of all forms of Christian activity. The women will be associated 
in several conventions. The W. C. T. U. will have a programme. 
So will the General Federation of Women's Clnbs and the P.E.O. 
There will also be a Mothers' Congress. 

IRRIGATION. 

The irrigation exhibit will perhaps be of more actual value 
to the western states than any other feature of the Exposition. 
A field of ten acres, under the charge of the Department of 
Agriculture, will be operated as an irrigated farm. Here will be 
displayed the latest and most approved methods of irrigation and 
there will be shown the possibilities of diversified farming under 
this system. Irrigation has done much already toward reclaim- 
ing the arid lands of the west, and the extension of a perfected 
irrigation system will add millions of acres to the valuable farm 
lands of this country. 

TRANSPORTATION. 

This exhibit includes all articles designed for carrrying pur- 
poses from a cash carrier to an air ship, and from a baby car- 
riage to a Pullman palace car or a powerful six drive wheel 
engine. It will show the gradual transformation of the Indian 
canoe into the modern man-of-war, the heavy lumbering- ox 
cart into the latest pneumatic tired horseless carriage, and the 
old-time coach into the modern vestibuled train which makes its 
run across the continent at the rate of a mile a minute. Here 
will be displayed the first railroad engine ever used in America, 
together with many others, which collectively illustrate the 
gradual improvements to the present time. In the Transporta- 
tion Building, on steel tracks running through the main aisles, 
will be exhibits of the latest and most palatially equipped 
trains of cars, locomotives, day coaches and palace sleeping cars 
ever shown at any exposition. 

A special feature will be made of all kinds of vehicles and 
conveyances, resulting- from application of the principles 
employed in bicycle construction, together with new methods of 
producing- motive power. In the transportation of visitors about 
the grounds the horseless carriages will be found a great 

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improvement over the wheeling- chairs used at the World's Fair. 
All of the latest improvements in vehicles, such as the motor- 
cycle intended to replace carriages, and farm and other heavy 
truck wagons operated by compressed air and electricity, will 
be displayed for the examination of visitors. 

The marine feature of the Exposition will be one of the most 
extensive ever prepared for public inspection. It will show the 
Roman and Viking g-alleys of ancient times as well as the latest 
improvements in the war and passenger ships of the present day. 

INDIAN EXHIBIT. 

An exhibit of extraordinary interest, both to the casual 
observer and the student of ethnology, will be the gathering of 
the representative types of all the different Indian tribes on the 
North American continent. This will show in the most graphic 
manner the progress of the Indian towards civilization. It will 
show tribes in the utmost state of savagery, with their appro- 
priate abodes, dress, utensils, weapons, games and amusements, 
forms and ceremonies, ceremonial objects, burial structures, etc., 
and it will show the highly civilized tribes, with their modern 
dwellings, their printing- presses and their books in the Indian 
language. The civilized tribes of the Five Nations of the Indian 
Territory, living under their own form of government, will here 
show their traits, their peculiarities, their weakness, and on 
many points their superiority over their white brethren. Incident 
to the encampment will be exemplified the nrysterious side of the 
character of the red man. The folk lore of the Indian— rich in 
legends, the system of heraldry in use for ages with its sig-ns 
and symbols, mysterious sig-nincance and ceremonies, and the 
different kinds of decorations, the sig-nincance of the device, its 
origin and the ceremony accompanying* its consecration, will all 
illustrate a new departure in the line of ethnological research 
adopted by Mr. James Mooney, of the Bureau of Ethnology. 

There will be a reproduction, historically correct in all its 
details, of the last great council of the amalgamated tribes of 
the Kiowas and Apaches. This encampment will cover about 
four acres and consist of 250 tepees. This will be only a part, 
however, of the great Indian town, as it is intended to bring- at 
least twelve types of each of all the different tribes now living- 
in North America. 

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MILITARY ENCAMPMENT. 

The proposed mobilization of the troops of the regular army 
and the National Guard at Omaha during the Exposition, will 
be the largest military assemblage held in the United States 
since the mustering out of the troops at the close of the civil war, 
The greater portion of the troops of the regular army has each 
year been detailed into moving columns for the practice of 
tactical maneuvers, and the National Guard has held annual 
encampments in each state for the same purpose. It is thought 
that their formation into a great army would produce results in 
the form of field practice not attainable in any other way. It 
would at the same time be an object lesson to the vast crowd: 
assembled here of the military strength of this country not 
realized by the ordinary citizen in these days of peace. 

There will probably be a large encampment of veterans of 
the war at Omaha during the Exposition, as at the Buffalo 
encampment of the G. A. R. a movement was inaugurated to 
that end. 

AMUSEMENTS. 

That part of the Exposition devoted strictly to the amuse- 
ment features of the great show is exceptionally strong. Applica- 
tions have been made to the Department of Concessions for 
space, which would cover more than ten times as much ground 
as is at the disposal of that department. Consequently there has 
been abundant opportunity for careful selection, and onl) r those 
attractions which provide novel and interesting entertainment 
have been accepted. For each concession granted, the manage- 
ment has exacted guarantees that the execution of the design 
will follow the proposal in every respect. The active investiga- 
tion which has been going on in the direction of mechanical and 
especially electrical novelties since the World's Fair, will insure 
the most striking display ever produced at any exposition. The 
following is a short description of a few of the many strong 
attractions which the Department of Concessions is considering 

Sherman's Umbrella is a stupenduous mechanical invention, 
which will stand 350 feet high and be anchored in a stone founda- 
tion 30 feet deep and 75 feet square. It will be 40 feet in diameter 
and consist of iron and steel. The ribs of this gigantic umbrella 

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are to be 110 feet in length, at the extremities of which the curs 
are to be suspended. There will be sixteen of these cars, with a 
carrying- capacity of about forty each. The lower platform will 
;i\»< be used for passengers and will accommodate about 200. 
When the umbrella is closed these cars will touch the ground, 
uid when raided the passengers will enjoy a ride in a merry-go- 
round at an elevation of 250 feet. As this will be constructed on 
me bluff many feet above the river, a splendid bird s eye-view 
may be had of the country for miles around, the city, and the 
entire Exposition grounds. At night the tower will be brilliantly 
illuminated by electricity, while at the apex a powerful search 
light will be placed. This stream of light may be seen at a dis- 
tance of one hundred miles. 

The Submarine Theatre. One proposition which has met 
with much favor by the Exposition authorities, is the proposal 
nstruct a lake with a correct representation of a Turkish 
harem on a Boating island in the center of the lake. The 
entrance to this harem will be by mean-, of a diving car, which 
plunges beneath the surface oi the water and descends to a 
depth of thirty feet. During this submarine voyage the passen- 
gers are given a beautiful view of fish and plant life through 
the glass sides of the car. At the bottom of this lake the visitors 
find themselves in the mosl exclusive part of the harem. This is 
a beautiful, glittering grotto, in which the favorite beauti< 
me sultan '8 fairy land are grouped in artistic pictures, the 
whole being brilliantly Lighted by a submarine system of colored 
elect ric Lights. 

Wild West Show. Daring feats of horsemanship, the pony 

express, the Indian attack on the old-time stage coach, skillful 
footing, cowboys, scouts, hunters and trappers, with representa- 
tion of their daily life, a reproduction of the Custer massacre, 

and other historical incidents, will make up the continuous 
exhibition of the Wild West Show. 

Cyclorama of the Battle of Lookout Mountain, will be an 
historically correct reproduction of this famous battle. This 
scene will vividly depict in life-sized figures the contending" 
armies. In the foreground are seen heavy bodies of troops 
engaged and the artillery working their guns, supported by long- 
lines of infantry in reserve, awaiting the coming charg-e. On 

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the flanks the cavalry appear cutting", slashing- and hewing with 
their heavy sabers in their attempt to break the stubborn lir 
The field is strewn with the dead and dying-, with dismoun 
cannon, and the discarded implements of war. Now and tl .. 
throug-h the rising smoke may be seen the glare of the he* 



g-uns as they belch their contents into the advancing ran 
The wonderful realism of this great spectacle will bring forci 
to all minds the heroism, the grandeur, and the awful havoc 
one of the great battles of history. 



Colorado's Crystal Cave will occupy 3,000 feet of space. 1 
exterior will represent a Colorado mountain, covered with roc - 
and the natural trees and shrubs. Visitors will enter throu^ 
widening shafts, studded with electric lights into brilliant 
illuminated apartments, where the state's mineral resources wi 
he artistically displaj-ed. In the center of the main chamber a 
elaborate fountain will discharge the different mineral watei 
for which Colorado is noted, while from mysterious caverns wi! 
echo the strains of soft, sweet music and add enchantment t 
this beautiful fairyland. 

Wine Cascade. The wine makers of California are preparing 
a minature reproduction of the great Niag-ara. The rocks and 
precipices at the falls will be represented in glass, while the 
water will be represented by the red wine of California. 100,000 
g-allons of wine will be used and after the torrent passes over 
the falls, it will be returned by hidden conduits to continue it 
ceaseless course. 

The Electric Theatre is a handsome building, capable of 
seating 150 persons. The interior is tastefully fitted up, the 
walls being hung with painting-s, and together with the effects 
from the stained glass windows, the appearance is very beautiful 
Among the many novel scenes presented will be the different 
phases of daj r and night, such as "'Midnight,'' "Dawn,'' "Day," 
"Sunrise," "Noon," "Approach of Storm." "Passing of Storm 
and Rainbow," "Sunset," "Moonlight," "Stars," etc. Night and 
the Thunderstorm are represented by Mephistopheles, who 
gives fantastic dances. Day and Dawn are portrayed by a 
beautiful young lady, who enlivens the scene by an artistic skirt 
dance. The Approach of Storm is heralded by heat and chain 
lightning which gives the most weird effect imaginable. 

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Novel Electrical Displays. The recent inventions and 

pertinents in electricity by Edison, Lord Kelvin. Thomson, 

einmetz, Trask, Peabody and others, will be illustrated in 

dless way--. Mr. Stiering"er, who designed the electrical foun- 

"V^ in> at the World's Fair, has been engaged as consulting 

metrical engineer of the Exposition. The effects obtained in 

e night illumination of the Exposition grounds will b 

■ iterest to scientists as well a> a most delightful revelation to 

ie great crowds of pleasuri s. Among the many won- 

jrful sights provided by this agency will be an electrical 

arden, showing the various hue-, and tints of the flowers by 

leans of colored screens and powerful searchlights, and demon- 

trations of searchlight effects on moving waters the Missouri 

iver for a long distance and also the bluffs on either side, show- 

ng strange and wonderful effects developed by the aid of 

lectrical science. 

Shootingthe Chutes is oneof the most healthful, invigorating 
and joyous amusement in the list of outdoor sports. The plant 
to be erected at the Exposition will represent an outlay of ah. ait 

00, and will in- the largest in existence. It is built some- 
thing after the fashion of a huge toboggan slide, starting from 
tin- top of which boats filled with passengers rush down the 
Bteep incline and bound over the water in the lake. 

The Scenic Railway , about two-thirds of a mile in length, is 
operated by the force of gravity, aided at times by an endless 
cable. The train passes over a road showing some very beauti- 
ful scenery prepared for the purpose. Sometimes high in the 

air. again passing through tunnels illuminated by electrical 
flash lights in colors. 

Moorish Village. This will be one of the largest and most 
pretentious of the amusement features of the Exposition. In the 
jarst building several optical illusions will beshown. Beyond the 
Beries of Moorish arches is a Large open air area, planted with 
trees and decorated with fountains, flowers and statuary, after 
the style of a Moorish court, where concert- and regular high- 
class vaudeville will be given. The first of its buildings is a low 
structure, with two dome capped towers in staff gilded and made 
to resemble repousse gold. Towering above this building and 
forming the further side of an open court will be the palace, the 

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main feature of the group, in the form of a mosque with large 
central dome and corner spires. The intervening court, with its 
frivolous open air theatre, will be a veritable tropical garden, 
masked from the public street by a double colonnade of Moorish 
arches, roofed with tiles. Next beyond this green and gold 
creation will be a Moorish house, correct in all its details, and 
groups of shops, gay with eastern rugs and metal trinkets. The 
large central building, surmounted by a magnificent dome, will 
be the Moorish palace, and in it will be displayed an interesting 
series of tableaux and figures in wax, together with a Chamber 
of Horrors and a Devil's Cave. The costumes and swords alone 
for one of the large groups will cost $15,000, and more than 
$75,000 will be expended on the interior of the palace. 

Moorish Mystic Maze consists of a labyrinth or maze of 
mirrors, unspeakably bewildering to the visitor. From the 
polished surface of the plate glass mirrors, placed at different 
angles, dozens of reflections transform j'ourself into a marching 
regiment and the slightest gesture is taken up and produces 
effects indescribably rediculous. From the moment of entrance 
all traces of entrance and exit disappear, and 3-011 have the novel 
experience of being lost, in company with a hundred reproduc- 
tions of yourself. The effect of this scene is heightened by being 
brillianth' illuminated by electricit}-. 

Other Novelties. A miniature train, consisting of a locomo- 
tive, tender, four observation cars, one box car and caboose — in 
all twenty-nine feet long — will be operated daily for the trans- 
portation of children. The cars are forty-one inches long and 
fourteen inches wide, and two children can be comfortably 
seated in each car. 

An elevated railway will convey passengers to and from 
various points on the grounds on pedal propelled machines, 
operated on a double track of steel rails. 

A miniature Nicaragua canal will be produced by a represen- 
tative of the Chilian government, showing the typography of the 
Isthmus and the engineering feats accomplished and necessary 
to be accomplished before the completion of the real canal. 

The German, Irish, Chinese, Tyrolean, Moorish and other 
typical national villiages, will show the true home life, architec- 
ture, costumes, etc., of the people represented. 

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Among- hundreds of other attractions will be the famous 
Mexican Military Band, Hag-enbeck's Animal Show, Moqui 
Indian Snake Dance, Old English County Fair, the Scenic Rail- 
way, moving- picture features, a Chinese Theatre, with its endless 
performance, "Old Vienna, 1 ' showing quaint types and customs 
of the people who inhabited the Austrian city centuries ag-o, the 
"Blue Grotto," with all its beautiful electrical effects will be 
produced on a grand and elaborate scale, a number of historic 
buildings, wonderful labyrinths, formed with mirrors and illumi- 
nated by electricity, an Old Plantation Scene, strange and won- 
derful water crafts and horseless carriages and numberless other 
attractions, new, beautiful, interesting and instructive — so far 
superior to all description that we must call this chapter closed. 

BARRETT-JOHNSON CO., 

Importing Tailors. 

Display of fine woolen goods. During Exposition year the 
best products of the looms of England, France, Germany and 
America will constantly be on display at our store. We cordially 
invite visitors to the Exposition to call and inspect them. We 
will be glad to take your measure and place it on file so that in 
the future you can order from us by sample if you see fit to favor 
us with your patronage. We have been established in Omaha 
ten years and enjoy a large patronage, built up and maintained 
by making stylish and durable clothing at a moderate cost. 
Barrett- Johnson Co.. 1507 Farnam St., Omaha, Neb. 

Sam'l Burns, China and Glassware. This is one of the 
finest and most extensive lines in Omaha, and the g-oods are 
marked low enough to gratif}- the desire for possession. The 
Art Rooms in the basement are among the attractions of the 
Exposition City, and they emphasise their motto: "Visitors 
and Purchasers Equally Welcome." 

Shorthand and Typewriting. A. C. Van Sant's School of 
Shorthand and Typewriting-, 717 N. Y. Eife Bldg, Omaha, Neb. 

Cleland & Smith, 1403 Douglas Street, Omaha. Groceries. 
Fine canned fruits and vegetables a specialtv. 

Oxford European Hotel, S. W. Cor. 11th and Farnam Sts. 
Omaha, Neb. Office No's 306-308 South 11th St. 

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CONVENTIONS FOR 1898. 

Omaha will this year be pre-eminently the convention city. 

There are already more conventions of state and national 
importance booked to be held in this city during the Exposition 
than were ever held in any city in the United States in a single 
year. The following is a partial list of those already secured: 

National Cricket Clubs. National Indian Institute. 

Swedish Epworth league. National Philai 

National Denial Coi National Council of Woimn. 

ty of American Florists. Nebraska Dental Association. 

ska Poultry Association. Liberal Oongn 1 I 

Nebraska Veteran Free Masons. American Forestry Association 

American Fisb< uion. 9 , Usb Evangelical Oonvem 

Dairymen's National Association. Travelers' Protective Association. 

.Na.,o,,ai Good Roads Parliament. National Bee Keepers' Association. 

National Ecleciic Medical Society. Nebi 

National Electric Llghl ta .elation. Old-Tlme Telegraphers' Association. 
American Association o1 Nurserymen. American Institute of Homoeopathy. 
Da,,,. 1, Lutheran Church of America. National 1. -a.,,, of Republican Olubs. 

Nebraska State Jeweler's A ttlon. National Association of Posl 

Nebraska State Masonic Grand Lodge. Grand Commandery Knights Templar. 
Nebraska State Pharmaceutical Society. 
National Convocation of Woman's Clubs. 
American Institute of Electrical Engineers. 
Association ol Theatrical Stage Bmploj 
Nebraska State Association of Undertakers. 
National Household Economic Association. 
W< raska State HomoBpathic Medical Bociety. 
National Encampment of the Sons of Veterans. 
Western Traveling Men's Accident Association. 
Fire Underwriters' Association of the Northwest. 
Grand Lodge of a. i\ & \. \i. 
Nai [onal Detectives' Association. 
Nebraska Betail Dealers' Association. 
Scottish Kite Masons. 
Nebraska Grand Lodge Knights of Pythias. 
National Funeral Directors' Association. 
General Assembly of United Presbyterian Church. 
United States League of Building and Loan Associations. 
The Society of the United States Military Telegraph Corps. 
Annual Convention of American Cemetery Superintendents. 
American Association of Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations 
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Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition. 
June 1 to November 1, 1898. 

Officers. 

Gurdon W. Wattles President A'lvin Saunders. .Resident V. Pres. 

Herman Kountze Treasurer John A. Wakefield Secretary 

Carroll S. Montgomery General Counsel. 

Executive Committee. 

Zachary T. Lindsey. .Chairman, and Manager Department Ways and Vfeans 

Edward Rosewater Manager Department Publicity and Promotion 

Freeman P. Kirkendall Manager Department Buildings and Grounds 

Edward E. Bruce Manager Department Exhibits 

Abram L. Reed Manager Department Concessions and Privileges 

William N. Babcock Manager Department Transportation 

State Vice Presidents. 



Arkansas Hon. 

California Hon . 

Colorado Hon. 

Idaho Hon. 

Iowa Hon. 

Kansas Hon. 

Louisiana Hon. 

Minnesota ..Don. 

Missouri Hon. 

Montana Hon. 

Nebraska Hon. 

Nevada Hon. 

North Dakota Hon. 

Oregon Hon. 

South Dakota Hon. 

Texas Hon. 

Utah Hon. 

Washington Hon. 

Wyoming Hon. 

Alaska Hon. 

Arizona Hon. 

New Mexico Hon. 

Oklahoma Hon. 



W. G. Yincenheller Little Rock 

Geo. W. Parsons Los Angeles 

Henry P. Steele Denver 

B. P. Shawhan Payette 

Geo. F. Wright Council Bluffs 

C. A. Fellows Topeka 

C. Harrison Parker New Orleans 

Frank H . Peavey Minneapolis 

John Doniphan St. Joseph 

W. H. Sutherlin White Sulphur Springs 

William Neville North Platte 

H. B. Maxson Reno 

C. A. Lounsberry Fargo 

B. S. Cook Salem 

Thomas H. Wells Hot Springs 

Robert Bornef eld Galveston 

Lewis W. Shurtliff Ogden City 

Geo. W. Thompson Tacoma 

Frank P. Graves Laramie 

James Sheakley Sitka 

Charles R. Drake Tucson 

L. Bradford Prince Santa Fe 

Eugene Wallace Oklahoma City 



Architects. 

Walker & Kimball. Boston and Omaha Architects in Chief 

Eames & Young, St. Louis Fine Arts Building 

S. S. Beman, Chicago Manufacturers Building 

Cass Gilbert, St. Paul Agriculture Building 

J. J. Humphreys, Denver Mines and Mining Building 

Dwight Perkins, Chicago Machinery and Electricity Building 

Fisher & Laurie, Omaha Auditorium and Liberal Arts Building 

Charles F. Beindorff , Omaha Horticulture Building 

John McDonald, Omaha Nebraska Building 

U. S. Government Commission. 

Department of Agriculture J. H. Brigham, President of Commission 

Treasury Department Charles E. Kemper, Architect 

Department of the Interior F. W. Clarke 

State Department W. H. Michael 

Smithsonian Institution and National Museum F. W. True 

Department of Justice Frank Strong 

Post Office Department J. B. Brownlow 

War Department Capt. A. C. Sharpe 

Navy Department Lieut. C. McConnick 

Fish Commission William De C. Ra venal 



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THE MILLARD. 

J. E. Markel cY. Son. proprietors. Thirteenth and Doug-las 
streets. Due largely to the liberality of the management, the 
excellence of the service and its unsurpassed table. The Millard 
is now considered not only the leading hotel of Omaha, but of 
the entire west. The building is a handsome five-story structure 
of brick, with 200 rooms and a frontage on two streets ; is con- 
venient to business, and all street car lines pass the doors, and 
while practically tire proof, is provided with ample tiro escapes 
on every floor, and equipped with the celebrated Bon nor Stand 
pipe. Most extensive improvements have just been completed, 
and the hotel is now Lighted by electricity from a complete plant 
upon the premises. Freezing machines make all the ice used 
from pure boiled and filtered water. Sixty now bath room>. 
with most modem sanitary plumbing, and perfect ventilation, 
have been added, and the kitchen equipped now entirely, includ- 
ing ranges and steam tables. We have no hesitancy in pro- 
nouncing the Millard one of the most modern hotels in the 
country, and visitors to the Trans-Mississippi and International 
Exposition will find their stay at this celebrated hostelry most 
Bongenia 1. 

THE HOTEL DELLONE, 

located at the corner of Fourteenth and Capitol Avenue, is the 
only fire proof hotel in the state, and with the new annex, is also 
the largest. The hotel is conducted on the European plan; prices 

ranging from SI. 00 per day and upward-, and has a capacity of 
caring for 700 to 800 people daily. Street cars for the Exposi- 
tion, South Omaha, Council Bluffs, and all depots, pass the door. 
The hotel was opened in August. 1896, by W. W. Coates, who is 
still manager. Meals are served OH both the cafe and regular 
plan at reasonable prices. 

THE BRIDENBECKER RESTAURANT, 

Oyster and Fish House, established in May. 1888. It is now, 
and always has been, the leading medium-priced ladies and 
gentlemen restaurant in Omaha. A nice, large and ventilated 
room. Good home-like cooking, quick service. We make our own 
pastry. The best coffee in the city. Lunches put up to take out. 

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Everything served in season. Meals served at all hours. One- 
half block each from the Thirteenth and Fourteenth street car 
lines. Farnam street cars pass the do;>r. Telephone 821. open 
all nig-ht; 1312 Farnam street. Omaha. Neb. 

THE NEW MERCER. 

The Exposition managers arc much pleased with the open- 
in- of this hotel to the public, which event was celebrated Feb- 
ruary 1. The Mercer is a seven-story brick structure, thoroughly 
fireproof and with its ISO rooms and 50 bath rooms was a welcome 
addition to the hotel accommodations of the Exposition City. 
The hotel will be under the management of Dick Smith, at one 
lime >tate representative and later senator. F. J. Coates, 
proprietor of the Riley, is president of the company and is mak- 
ing a specialty of convention-. 



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Early History of Omaha. 



"The city is the nerve center of our civilization,' says Dr. 
Josiah Strong. This is demonstrated in "The- Winning of the 
West," and the history of Omaha ; its birth a> a prairie hamlet 
and its magical growth into the splendid proportions of a commer- 
cial metropolis, is to some extent the history of the progress of 
civilization in the northwest. This marvelous growth has been 
attained within the memory and the span of life of the city's 
first settlers, who built their cabins on the west bank of the 
Missouri river in 1854. a succinct history of this nerve center of 
the Trans-Mississippi country has much of interest in it. even 
when limited to a general outline with detail- referred to their 
special departments. 

Its early history has the charm of romance. The Lewi- and 
Clark expedition from St. Louis to the Pacific ocean encamped 
on a plateau now forming a northwestern part of Omaha. In 
L82 .1. B. Royce is said to have established an Indian trading post 
on the site of the present city of Omaha. But by tar the most 
important immigration of white men into Douglas canity was 
what is known in history as the "Mormon Advent.*" which 
occurred after the expulsion of the Mormons from Nauvoo, 
111., in 1H44. After the departure of the Mormons, or from about 
1H47 until 1853, there i- no authentic record of white- visiting this 
section either a- prospectors or for plea-ma-. The honorof being 
the first permanent white settler to -take a claim within the 
limit- of Omaha i- conferred by some upon Mr. William I). 
Brown ; but the statements made in this connection by Mr. A. 1>. 
.lone.-, who is .-till residing in this city, would indicate that he 
is rightly entitled to this distinction. 

In June. 1853 Dr. Enos Lowe Jesse Williams, Joseph Street. 
William I). Brown, and Jesse Lowe, of Council Bluffs, Iowa. 
organized a ferry and town company and determined on found- 
ing a town across the river. 

By the treaty promulgated June 24. LSS4, the Indian title to 
the land in Douglas county was extinguished, or nearly half a 

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century after the consummate wisdom of Jefferson had acquired 
from France for the United States the title to the northwest 
territory. Early in the spring- of 1854 settlers commenced to 
locate upon the new purchase from the Omahas. Among the 
settlers during this first year of Omaha were A. D. Jones, J. Fv. 
Johnson, Robert B. Whitted, George Armstrong, O. D. Richard- 
son, John Davis, Mr. Seelej', Wm. Clancey, Lyman Richardson* 
Thos. Swift, Jeffrey Brothers, Harrison Jonson, John M. Thayer, 
J. C. Reeves, Jos. Hickey, Ben Leonard, Samuel E. Rogers, Gen. 
K. Estabrook, C. A. Downs, Mr. Dodd, William Rogers, A. R. 
Gilmore, W. P. Snowden, O. B. Seldon, A. J. Ha-nscom. J. W. 
Paddock, "William Gra}-, John Withnell, A. J. Poppleton, Dr. 
George L. Miller. Lorin Miller, J. G. Megeath, and some few 
others. From 1854 to 1859 the settlers came and located in 
Omaha, whose energy, liberality, persistency, judgment, public 
spirit and foresight became important factors in the develop- 
ment of the embryo city. It is the first settlers who impress 
themselves and their character on the future. Powerful influen- 
ces may, in later years, produce important modifications ; but it 
is earl}- influence which is farthest reaching, and is generals- 
decisive. And the city reflects today the sterling character of 
the early settlers. 

The first survey of the city was made by the Council Bluffs 
& Nebraska Ferry Company'. When Nebraska was admitted as 
a territory on May 23, 1854. the gentlemen composing the com- 
pany saw the importance of securing a town site on'the west bank 
of the Missouri. Mr. A. D. Jones was employed to make the sur- 
vey, assisted by Captain C. H. Downs, who carried the chains 
and drove the stakes. Both these gentlemen are now living in 
Omaha, and they completed the work early in July. 1854. Mr. 
Jones laid out the town site so that it contained 320 blocks, each 
264 feet square, intersected by streets 100 feet wide except Capi- 
tol Avenue, which was made 120 feet wide. Alleys 20 feet wide 
run through the blocks, and the lots were made 66x132 feet 
except business lots, which were given a frontage of 22 feet. The 
base line of the survey was Davenport street. The city receives 
the name from the Omaha tribe of Indians, and it is said that 
Mr. Jesse Lowe, deceased, suggested '"Omaha" as the name for 
the new settlement. Two traditions are connected with the 
word, one as follows : The name "Omaha," by Indian tradition, 

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originated in something- like the following - manner: Two bands 
of Indians met in deadly battle on the Missouri river, in which 
all on one side were killed, except one Indian, who had been 
thrown into the river. Suddenly rising- from what his enemies 
thought was a watery grave, he lifted his head above the surface 
of the water and pronounced the word "Omaha," which none 
had ever before heard. Its meaning was, therefore, thought to 
be, that the supposed drowning Indian was above the water and 
not, as his enemies and those who heard it, supposed under the 
water. The other origin attributed to the word is: That the 
Omaha Indians, until comparatively recent times, were called the 
Mahas. The signification of the name being said to be "The- 
up-river-people." It is properly pronounced O-maw-haw, with 
no accent at all upon any of the three syllables. 

It was not until the legislature of 1857 passed an act incor- 
porating "The City of Omaha," and making ''the middle of the 
main channel of the Missouri river" the east line of the city, 
that municipal government became a fact. On February 2, 1857, 
the new charter became a law. Prior to this the town had been 
Omaha City, but when the legal right to the pretentious suffix 
was bestowed, it was dropped and the town became simply 
"Omaha." Before this time the county officials had conducted 
the public business. The new law passed the business of "The 
City of Omaha" over to a mayor, nine aldermen, recorder, 
treasurer, assessor, and marshal. This was the genesis of our 
present government. The ma3'ors of the city have been : Jesse 
Lowe, 1857; A. J. Poppleton, March to September 1858; George 
Armstrong, Sept., 1858 to March, 1859 ; D. D. Belden, 1859 ; Clin- 
ton Briggs, 1860 ; George Armstrong, March, 1861, to Nov., 1862 
B. E. B. Kennedy, Nov. 1862 to March, 1864 ; A. R. Gilmore, 1864 ; 
Eorin Miller, 1865 ; Charles H. Brown. 1867 ; George M. Roberts, 
March 1868 to June 1869 ; Ezra Millard, June, 1869 to April 1871 ; 
Smith S. Caldwell, 1871 ; J. H. Millard, 1873 ; William M. Brewer, 
April, 1873 to Feb. 1874 ; J. S. Gibson, Feb. 1874 to April 1874 ; C. 
S. Chase, 1874 ; R. A. Wilbur, 1877 ; C. S. Chase, 1879 ; James E. 
Boyd, 1881; C. S. Chase, Apr. 1883 to June 1884; P. F. Murphy, 
June, 1884 to Apr. 1885 ; James E. Boyd, Apr. 1885 to May 1887 ; 
W. J. Broatch, May, 1887 to Jan. 1890; R. C. Cushing, 1890; Geo. 
P. Bemis, 1892; Wm. J. Broatch, Jan. 1896 to May, 1897 ; Frank 
E. Moores, 1897. 

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Two thing-s materially aided the growth of Omaha and added 
their tribute of prosperity to crown with success the enterprise 
and sagacity of its founders. The first was the locating- of the 
territorial capitol at Omaha. Hon. Francis Burt, a native of 
South Carolina, was appointed the first governor of Nebraska 
after its organization as a territory, by act of Congress on May 
30, 1854. Before the meeting- of the first territorial legislature, 
and in just ten days from his arrival in the territory, Governor 
Burt died. His secretary, Hon. T. B. Cummings, became acting 
governor. Governor Cummings designated Omaha as the place 
where the first session of the legislature should be held, and this 
act gave the opportune prestage over other rival claimants. For 
thirteen years and until in 1867, an act of congtess, providing 
for the admission of Nebraska as a state, was ratified bv the 
legislature in session in this citv, Omaha was made the territorial 
capitol. Of this the Hon. James W. Savage says : ''Whatever 
the motive or reason, the action of Governor Cummings settled 
the question so far as the first assemblage of the legislature was 
concerned, and gave to the ambitious little City of Omaha that 
prestage which enabled her, not without importunity, lavish 
expenditure of money, great parliamentary shrewdness and even 
at times a resort to the powerful logic of fisticuffs, to retain its 
position as the metropolis for nearly thirteen years." This 
advantage in the cradle of her infancy was seized to extend the 
city westward from the dreary •'bottoms' 1 and to establish upon 
the plateau the imperial tent of a commercial metropolis, the 
pride of whose strength is not yet. 

The excitement connected with the '"Pawnee war'' broke the 
dull monotony of frontier life ; and the rush for gold to Pike's 
Peak and the sands of Cherry creek made Omaha an outfitting 
and freighting point that filled our streets with life and caused 
business to thrive. While these added their tribute to our pros- 
perity, they were not nearly so important to the cit3 r 's future 
welfare as the locating and building of the Union Pacific rail- 
road, that was to touch the waste plains with governmental life 
for budding towns and fertile farms. As Dr. George L,. Miller, 
for many years the distinguished editor of "The Omaha Herald," 
so well phrases it : "Omaha was practically extinguished under 
the financial avalanche of 1857 and did not emerge from its 
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the spring of 1859, however, came the return of the tide of immi- 
gration, and as this city was not regarded with the least favor 
not a few came to remain and to identify themselves with the 
city and surrounding country. 

In 1860 Omaha had a population of 1.861 ; in 1870, 16,083 : in 
1880, 30,518, and in 1890. 140.452. In ten year-, we have advanced 
from sixty-fourth to twenty-first place in the list of American 
cities. The increase both in population and commercial import- 
ance has been rapid, and the present growth of the city is all 
that could be desired. Today "it delights us to remember these 
thing's,* 1 and the history of the city'.-, rise and progress clothes 
the naked truth with the charm of romance. 

NEBRASKA. 

Nebraska was included in the Louisiana purchase and for 

many years formed a part of the northwest territory. It was 
organized as a territory in 1854 under the Kansas and Nebraska 
bill. It extended wot to the Rocky Mountains and north to the 
British possessions, having an area of 351,558 square miles. 

The Dakotas, Colorado, and other states, were afterwards 
formed under separate territorial governments, and Nebraska 
consists at present of 77,510 square miles, the eleventh in area of 
the states of the Union. Nebraska was admitted as a state in 
1867. The surface of Nebraska is chiefly an elevated prairie, 
very level in the central and eastern portions, but growing 
broken towards the north and west. The atmosphere IS dry and 
Invigorating, and owing to the elevation the extremes of heat 
and cold are not so noticeable as in other parts of the country. 

The soil of Nebraska is mostly a rich mould, two to eight 
feet in depth. The staple crop is Indian corn, and on well con- 
ducted farms a yield of fifty to sixty bushels per acre is not 
unusual. Wheat, oats, barley, and all the crops common to the 
central west, are grown in enormous quantities. The soil of the 
state is particularly adapted to the cultivation of the sugar beet, 
and it promises soon to rank with corn as the staple product of 
the state. Several beet sug-ar factories have already been 
established, and others are in process of erection. Nebraska has 
always stood well as a stock raising- state, and large numbers of 
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on Nebraska corn. Portions of the state, that have been subject 
to the drought, are being- rapidly put under irrig-ation, and 
Nebraska is now capable of supporting- an enormous population. 

THE TRANS-MISSISSIPPI STATES 

and territories, under whose auspices the Exposition is held, was 
no part of the Federal Union before 1803. The Louisiana pur- 
chase of that year, the annexation of Texas in 1845, the division 
of the Oreg-on country in 1846, the Mexican cession in 1848, the 
further cession in 1853, and the Alaska purchase in 1867, makes 
up the whole of that vast scope of country which now has 
almost one-third of the population of the United States, which 
includes more than one-half of the units of the states and terri- 
tories and which comprises more than two-thirds of the 
of the total area of the United States. This country, with a 
breadth of more than two thousand miles and extending 
almost from the torrid to the frigid zone, has every variety of 
climate, every grade of elevation and every advantag-e of geolo- 
gical formation which could make it great and prosperous. Its 
population has increased in the last generation from six to 
twenty millions, and its wealth has increased at a far greater 
ratio. It produces practically all of the precious minerals of the 
United States and the development of its coal, copper, lead and 
iron mines has just begun. It includes within its boundaries 
nearly all of the sugar producing lands of the United States, the 
greater portion of the cotton belt, great forests of valuable 
timber, the best of fruit producing lands, and is the greatest 
grain and live stock region in the world. Education has kept 
pace with material progress ; the free school has followed every 
settler's camp, high schools and colleges have grown with the 
cities, great universities have been founded, and now taking the 
least per cent of illiteracy as a basis, this region is the most 
highly civilized portion of the globe. 

THE MISSOURI RIVER. 

The Missouri river drains a basin of 527,690 square miles. 
This, with the lower Mississippi, whose tributary it is, forms a 
river 4,200 miles in length, the longest river in the world. The 
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latin and Madison rivers at Gallatin City, Montana, 4,132 feet 
above the sea level. Of this river 2,682 feet are called navigable, 
but owing- to the shifting - sand bars, navigation is slow, and since 
the advent of the railroads, unprofitable. The river is of con- 
siderable historic interest, as it was up this waterway that the 
Lewis and Clark expedition reached the mountains, and later 
was the only means of transportation for the material and sup- 
plies for the building of the Union Pacific railroad. In 1865 
there were more than a hundred steamers in active service on 
the Missouri river, but now, in consequence of railroad competi- 
tion, a steamboat plying the river past Omaha, would be looked 
upon as a curiosity. 

THE UNION PACIFIC IN NEBRASKA. 

The important part played by the Union Pacific in the 
development of the State of Nebraska cannot be estimated by any 
array of figures. The construction of the road, its rise and 
triumphs, are a part of the history of the state, and the record of 
the prosperity of the road also witnesses the growth and increas- 
ing wealth of this grand young commonwealth. Since that 
memorable day in July, 1865, when the first rail was laid, the 
Union Pacific has been a strong friend and helper to the state. 
Today the Nebraska division of -the road covers 1,245 miles of 
track — that is the main line, branches, and auxiliaries. Vast 
regions of fertile country have thus been opened up to settlers, 
and great areas of land brought by rail into close communion 
with the metropolitan centers and markets. Thriving cities, 
villages, towns and hamlets, have sprung up in every section 
traversed by the line ; the state in twenty-three years has grown 
from 122,000 to over 1,250,000 inhabitants, and with a hundred- 
fold increase in all the many sided phases of commercial, 
material, and intellectual prosperity. The beginning of this 
prosperity, this wonderful growth and progress, dates from the 
inception of the Union Pacific Railway. The men who made 
possible this work, who threw their fortunes, their health, their 
reputations into it, will one day stand in civil life like our great 
leaders in the war. Monuments to their enterprise dot the 
country between the Missouri river and the Rocky Mountains, 
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had made possible a population within the next twenty years, 
between the Missouri river and the Pacific Coast, of fifty mill- 
i< >n- of people. 

The history of the Union Pacific in full would require a 
volume for the story, and in the brief -pace at our command, we 
can only outline a few of the salient features of this great 
system. Everyone knows something of its early history : how 
its construction was demonstrated to be a necessity as a war 
measure; the great achievement of the engineers who had it in 
charge, and the wonderful story of the patient, heroic effort 
which finally surmounted all obstacles and triumphed over all 
obstruction-. 

For the building of a great railway develops incident- as 
startling- and romantic as can be found in the recorded pages oi 
history. The growth of the United State- west of the Allegha- 
nies during the past fifty year.-, is due not SO much to free 
institutions, or climate, or the fertility df the soil. as to railway-. 
If the institutions, and climate, and soil had not been favorable 
to the development of commonwealths, railways would not have 

been constructed : but if railway- had not been invented, the 

freedom and natural advantages of our western states would 
have beckoned to human immigration and industry in vain, 
civilization would have crept -lowly on in a toilsome march over 

the immense space that lie between the Appalachian ranges and 
the Pacific ocean : and what we now style the great West, would 
be, except in the valley of the Mississippi, an unknown and 
unproductive wilderness. 

COUNCIL BLUFFS, 

five miles east of » Mnaha, is a city <d 30,000 inhabitants. While 
this city had a place on the maps since the Lewi- and Clarke 
expedition, it was not until 1839 that it had a permanent popula- 
tion. It was in that year that a company of soldiers established 
a fort on the present site of the city. But it was not until the 
Mormons, after their expulsion from Illinois, made this thelr 
halting- place before their journey across the plain.-, that Council 
Bluffs became a place of importance. The emigration from the 
eastern states to the g"old fields of California added largely to 
the growth of the city. This was the last town of ''the States." 
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at present is one of the most beautiful in the state of Iowa. It 
has 745 acres in public parks, noted for their natural beauty and 
the additional charm of well directed and effective landscape 
g-ardening-. Council Bluffs is also noted as a summer resort. 
Lake Manawa, the delightful haunt of pleasure seekers, enjoys 
the distinction of being the most beautiful body of water in the 
west. Grand Plaza and Manhatten Beach have become the 
resorts of outing- parties for hundreds of miles around. The 
ample hotel facilities and the hospitable spirit of its citizens have 
added greatly to its natural advantages, and its popularity in 
this respect is increasing- steadily. As a distributing point for 
agricultural implements it ranks second in the United States. It 
has a number of large manufacturing institutions, prominent 
among which are those which produce products useful for agri- 
cultural purposes. The near proximity- of Council Bluffs to the 
Exposition Grounds will make it a popular stopping place for 
visitors, and will probably tax its resources to the utmost. 

CITY GOVERNMENT. 

By virtue of its population, Omaha is a City of the metropol- 
itan class in accordance with a law passed by the last legislature. 
Under its charter of 1897 the city is divided into nine wards, from 
each of which a councilman is elected by the entire vote of the 
city by a plurality of votes. Under the same charter the follow- 
ing- city officers are elected to serve for three years at the speci- 
fied annual salarv : 



Mayor $2,500 

Police Judge $1,200 

City Clerk $1,800 



Treasurer $4,000 

Comptroller $1,800 

Tax Commissioner $2,500 



Nine Councilmen at $900 each. 

Other cit}- officers are appointed bj' the mayor and confirmed 
by the council. The revenue for meeting the expenses of the 
city is derived almost wholly from taxation. Last year the levy 
was 54 mills on an assessed valuation of $17,415,948. As the 
actual taxable property of the city is about $200,000,000. the real 
tax is less than 5 mills. 

The Police Force of the city consists at present of eighty- 
eight men. As sixty members of the force are enrolled as patrol- 
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the whole force can be concentrated in one place in a very short 
time, the number of men, though small, is more effective than a 
much larger body under the old methods. In the year Wo. o.ls4 
arrests were made, of which 2,756 were convicted and 3,428 were 
dismissed. 

The Fire Department, with headquarters in the City Hall, 
and with engine houses in the different portions of the city, has 
been very successful in keeping down Losses by fire. For the 
last three years the property destroyed by fire in this city has 
not averaged $100,000 per year. The department consists of the 
following companies : Pour engine companies, eight hose com- 
panies, thr< e hook and ladder companies, and two chemical com- 
panies. This department is furnished with the most modern 
apparatus for the saving of life and preventing the destruction 
of property by fire. 

POPULATION. 

According to the United States census of 1890 the popula- 
tion of Omaha consisted of 140,452 souls. Of this population, 
|05,413 were native bi rn and 35,039 were foreign born. The 
( aucasian race claimed 135,794, while 4,566 were colored, 89 were 
Chinese and 3 were civilized Indians. Of the foreign born the 
following countries furnished the specified numbers : Germany 
8,279, Sweden 6,265, Denmark 4.242. Ireland 4,067, Bohemia 2. (.75. 
England 2.455, Canada and Newfoundland 1,952, Scotland 892, 
Austria 834, Norway 624. Russia 613, Italy 536, Poland 526, 
France 244. Switzerland 208, Wales 141, Hungary 136, Holland 
125. China B9, Belgium 23, Australia 14, Turkey 13, Spain 10, 
West Indies ". Luxemburg 8, South America <>. India 5, Greece 5, 
Pacific Islands 5. .Mexico 4, Portugal 4. Africa 5, Japan 2, Atlan- 
tic Islands 2, Central America 1. Of the 42 remaining 22 came 
from Europe and 7 from A^ia — countries not specified : while 13 
were born at sea. 

PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS. 

While the first settled portion of Omaha was an ideal site 
for a city, being - a gently .sloping plateau with hills in the back- 
ground, the expansion of the city met with serious obstacles. 
The hills, which added so much to the beauty of the earlier city, 

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were very steep, broken and uneven, and it is impossible for the 
stranger to realize the millions of cubic yards of earth it was 
necessary to move from the hills into the ravines before the city 
was brought to its present condition. While private owners 
paid for the grading of their lots to the street level, an immense 
amount of money was expended out of the public treasury to 
bring the streets to the required grade. The site of the city hall 
was naturally forty-five feet higher than it is at present. The 
city now covers twenty-four and one-half square miles. There 
are 600 miles of streets, eighty miles of which are paved with 
stone, brick, asphalt, or cedar blocks. The blocks are now being 
replaced by other material. There is now 125 miles of sewer. 
The sewerage system is remarkable in that it is the only system 
of equal magnitude with ventilated untrapped sewers. This 
renders them free from sewer gas. Aside from the main sewers, 
about thirty miles of lateral sewers on the combination plan 
have been built. All have automatic flushing tanks at their 
terminal points and are kept constantly clear. The sewerage 
system of this city cost $1,750,000. The City Hall was completed 
a few years ago at a cost of $500,000. Aside from this the city 
has expended large sums of money on the public schools, the 
park system and the public library, each described elsewhere. 

WATER SUPPLY. 

The water furnished by the Omaha Water Company is taken 
from the Missouri river at two pumping stations, the principal 
one being located at Florence, about seven miles north of the 
city. This pumping station contains machinery capable of 
handling fifty-eight million gallons of water per twenty-four 
hours, and is divided between the high and low service. The 
low service pumps take the water from the river through intake 
pipes and deliver it into the first of a series of seven settling 
basins, having a combined storage capacity of over eighty 
million gallons. The water in passing through these basins is 
over a number of overflows so constructed as to select the upper 
and clearer film of water and repeatedly subject it to the purify- 
ing influence of aeration. The sediment contained in the river 
water, in consequence of its almost quiet state in the basins, 
settles to the bottom and is periodically discharged into the; 

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river through large pipes provided for that purpose. During 
this process, the basin from which the sediment is being drawn, 
is thrown out of service, emptied and thoroughly washed with 
streams of water under high pressure. 

From the last, and so-called clear water basin, the high ser- 
vice pumps take the water and force it into the distribution 
mains throughout the city, which system of pipes is in communi- 
cation with a reservoir located on Walnut Hill, at an elevation of 
three hundred and seven feet above mean low water in the river, 
and having a storage capacity of eleven million gallons. The 
elevation of this reservoir, however, is not sufficiently high to 
furnish adequate pressure to the resident districts located on the 
higher portions of the bluffs, to provide which there are two 
pumping stations, with a combined pumping capacity of four- 
teen million gallons per twenty-four hours. One of these sta- 
tions is placed at the reservoir on Walnut Hill, from which it 
receives the water and forces it to the required elevation. The 
second station, located on Twentieth street, near Poppleton 
avenue, performs a like service. Thus all the water furnished to 
the City of Omaha is pumped twice and a considerable portion of 
it three times. 

In addition to the three pumping stations mentioned, there is 
a fourth, which is located at the river, within the city limits, at 
the foot of Burt street, and is used as an auxiliary supply station, 
ready at a moment's notice to go into operation, if required. 
This station is supplied with high and low service pumps, having 
an aggregate capacity of twenty-two million gallons for twenty- 
four hours, together with a system of settling basins similar in 
principle to the larger plant at Florence. It is estimated that 
the cost of this plant is approximately, five million dollars. 

LIBRARIES. 

The Omaha Public Library, at the corner 19th and Harney 
streets, is one of the substantial buildings of Omaha. Architect- 
urally speaking, the style is Italian renaissance, the superstruc- 
ture is of straw colored brick, with trimmings of terra cotta of 
the same shade. The main floor is used as a stock room with 
a capacity for 130,000 volumes. The second floor contains the 
reading rooms and Byron Reed collection. The upper floor is 
arranged for an art gallery. 

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The land on which the building- stands and the Reed collec- 
tion of coins and manuscripts was a bequest of the late Byron 
Reed. The building- was erected at a cost of $100,000. 

The library was org-anized in 1872, with 2,600 volumes. In 
February 1878, under the law of the state, it was made a free 
public library and today numbers 53,857 volumes. 

The New York Life Law Library occupies rooms in the Life 
building-, corner 17th and Farnam streets. It was opened in 
October 1889 and contains 8,250 volumes. 

The Omaha Law Library Association in the Paxton Block. 
16th and Farnam, contains 2,700 volumes. 

Creighton College, 25th and California streets, has one of the 

finest college libraries in the state, having- 1,600 volumes. The 
Professors' library has 7,000 volumes. To both of these libraries 
visitors will be admitted. 

EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS. 

It is greatly- to the credit of Omaha, that during a period of 
unparalled material development, its educational institutions, in 
number and excellence, have kept equal pace. Thirtj'-eight 
public schools, twelve private schools and academies, and eleven 
colleges and universities, nearly all established within twent}' 
years, is a record of which any community may well be proud. 

The foundation of this mag-nificent educational system is, of 
course, laid in the public schools of the city, which is controlled 
by a board of education of fifteen members, and enjoying- the 
oversig-ht of an active and scholarly superintendent, and con- 
ducted by a staff of devoted teachers, are maintained in the 
hig-hest state of efficiency. 

In the city there are more than 30,000 school children; 17,000 
of whom were in attendance last year and 13,000 of whom were in 
attendance nearly every day during the school year. The proper 
instruction of these children requires the services of supervisors, 
principals and teachers to the number of 340. Children are 
received at the age of five years and usually spend the first year 
in the kinderg-artens, thence passing- into the regular primary 
schools. The schools are graded on the usual plan, and the child 

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usually passes through the grades below the High school in 
eight years. He has in this time acquired, a g-ood common school 
education, the elements of science, of vocal music and drawing - , 
and a general knowledge of English literature. After these 
grades the pupil enters the High school, where at the end of 
four 3 r ears, and at an average age of 18 years, he is fitted for busi- 
ness life or for entrance to some college or university. The 
records of the board show that the board has in its employ more 
than 400 persons, and that it expends for their salaries and other 
purposes nearly $400,000 each j-ear. This money comes into the 
school treasury from fines imposed and licenses granted by the 
city, from the distribution of state school funds and from local 
taxation. The amount derived from other sources has been suffi- 
ciently large so that taxation for school purposes in Omaha has 
been comparatively light. For years, as the number of pupils 
has constantly increased, the average cost of educating each 
child has as constantly decreased. 

The Omaha Woman's Club is a department club having a 
membership of between five and six hundred. Each of the thir- 
teen departments has a leader, an assistant leader and a secre- 
tary, who conduct the work after the manner of advanced class 
work in school. Work in the form of topics is assigned before- 
hand and carefully prepared from the best sources, as in most of 
the departments no text books are used. There are departments 
for the following subjects : English history, education, art, 
domestic science, philosophy, social science, German history, 
current topics, current literature, parliamentar}- practice, ora- 
tory, English literature and music. The majority of these 
departments meet once in two weeks. They are subject to the 
government of the club ; the various leaders with the executive 
officers making what is called the directory, which virtually 
manages the affairs of the club. It is the aim of the club, not 
only to stimulate stud}- but as well to promote the social interests 
of its members, and further, makes it a point to identify itself 
with all advance and altruistic movements in the city. The 
general meetings of the club are held the first and second Mon- 
days of each month from three to live o'clock. The programs 
occupying half of the time of these meetings are furnished by 
the respective departments, each department furnishing one 
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business of a miscellaneous character. The officers for 1897 and 
1898 are: President, Mrs. W. P. Half ord ; first vice president, 
Mrs. I. R. Andrews ; second vice president, Mrs. W. "W. Keysor ; 
treasurer, Mrs. C. Rosewater ; recording- secretary, Mrs. George 
Hoobler ; corresponding- secretary, Mrs. C. E. Hering. Begin- 
ning- with October, the opening of the club ) T ear, the meetings 
will be held in the parlors and auditorium of the First Congrega- 
tional church. Visitors are admitted in limited numbers on 
recommendation of members. 

Young Men's Christian Association, organized in 1868, 
erected their present building in 1887, at a cost of 5110,000. The 
membership at present numbers 1.250. The building - is fitted up 
with a g3'mnasium, bath rooms, a librar\' of 1,500 volumes, and 
a reading- room, where may be found about 125 of the latest daily 
and weekly newspapers and magazines. There is also a room 
with implements for playing- the most popular games. The 
gymnasium, containing- the latest apparatus, is under the con- 
trol of a physical director, who conducts his classes on scientific 
principles. Exercise is taken daily and the members are graded 
into classes according to their ability in gymnastics. The educa- 
tional features of this institution are important, as its priveleges 
are not limited to members. Night schools are conducted from 
October to April and thorough courses are given in algebra, 
arithmetic, bookkeeping, parliamentary law and current topics, 
drawing, architectural, mechanical and freehand, electricity, 
elocution, English Bible, French, g-eography, g-eometry, Ger- 
man, Latin, penmanship, physics, political econom3', reading, 
spelling, grammar, shorthand, Spanish, steam engineering, 
t3'pewriting, telegraphy and vocal music. Men's religious 
meetings are held every Sunday at 4 p. m., and Bible classes at 
stated intervals. About 850 men make use of the privileges 
extended by this association ever3' da3'. During the exposition 
open house will be kept for visiting- members of all outside asso- 
ciations and all the privileges of the building will be extended, 
while the reading rooms will be open to all visitors whether 
members of the association or not. The building is open from 
8 a. M. to 10 P. M., and on Sunday- from 1 p. M. to 6 p. M. 

The Young Woman's Christian Association has pleasant 
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library. This association was organized in June, I893, and now 
has 500 members. The larg-e gymnasium will be arranged for 
the accommodation of visiting members during the exposition. 
A bureau will be established for the purpose of providing rooms 
and board for ladies visiting the exposition, and their gymna- 
sium, bath rooms, reading rooms, and library will be at their 
disposal. Song service is held at 12 M. on Friday, with regular 
religious services at 4 p. m. on Sunday. Bible classes are held at 
stated times. The rooms are open from 9 a. m. to 9 p. m., and on 
Sunday aftjrnoon from 2 p. M. to 6 p. M. 

firs. Hanchett's Class in History. Classes in history, 
American and foreign, have been conducted by Mrs. W. H. 
Hanchett for a number of years. Long and thorough courses 
have been given in American, English and German history, 
while three years ago Ancient Eg} r pt was taken up. The class is 
still devoting its energies to this subject. This class is open to 
any lady who wishes to take up the course of stud}-. 

Creighton University, founded and endowed in 1875 by 
Edward Creighton, and conducted by the order of the Jesuits, is 
entirely free. It is located on 25th and Calilornia streets and 
commands an excellent view of the surrounding country. The 
main building, a handsome brick with limestone trimmings, is 
devoted entirely to college purposes. It contains the professors' 
library, consisting of 7,000 volumes of rare and valuable books: 
the students' library of 1,600 volumes, selected for the students 
and entirely free; and a cabinet of physical apparatus, portions 
of which have been put on exhibition at various state and city 
exhibits. Aside from the main building there is an astronomi- 
cal observatory, a chemical labratorj', a photographic gallery, 
and a mechanical workshop. 

John A. Creighton Medical College was founded in 1892. It 
occupies a handsome new building on the corner of 14th and 
Davenport streets, and will accommodate 400 students. The 
study of medicine in this institution consists of a four years' 
course of seven months each. The students have the benefit of 
the instruction and experience of a facult)' of practical and 
experienced physicians and the advantage of attending the 
patients in the Creighton Memorial St Joseph's hospital and St. 
Barnard's hospital in Council Bluffs. 

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Brownell Hall, 1512 So. Tenth street, under the control of 
the Episcopal church and. the immediate supervision of the 
bishop, and occupying- one of the pleasantest school sites in the 
city, is a boarding - school for young - ladies. 

The Omaha Medical College was founded in 1881, and is the 
medical department of the University of Omaha. The attend- 
ance has gradually increased since its inception, and it has 
graduated many successful physicians, who are now practicing 
their profession in Omaha. The students have the advantag-e of 
attending - the hospitals in the city other than the Creighton 
Memorial St. Joseph's hospital. 

The Academy of the Sacred Heart, located at 36th and Burt 
streets, is a boarding - school for young - ladies. While a Catholic 
school, differences of religion is no bar to admission. The 
ordinary branches are thoroug-hly taug-ht, as well as long- and 
complete courses in modern lang-uag-es, music and painting. It 
has graduated a large number of students in the many suc- 
cessful years it has been in operation, and, together with the 
Brownell Hall, has drawn many young - ladies from the eastern 
states to enjoy its educational advantages. 

Belleview College, nine miles south of Omaha, and the theo- 
logical seminary of this city; also parts of the University of 
Omaha are enjoying a large attendance. 

ART IN OMAHA. 

The period of greatest interest and activity in art in Omaha, 
when the art interests were united, and sincerely seeking a 
higher plan of knowledge and expression, were those years 
when the Western Art Association, under the able guidance of 
its president, Mr. G. W. Lininger, held its popular exhibitions 
and awarded its prizes and medals to the successful artists. 

The first fall exhibition of the association was held in 1888 
in the splendid gallery built by Mr. Ljninger, in connection with 
his residence at Eighteenth and Davenport streets, for the 
valuable collection of works of art he had secured in his travels 
around the world. This collection of paintings is on free exhibi- 
tion to the public, and thousands of visitors avail themselves of 
the delightful privileges extended to them. 

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The gallery contains many choice and valuable pictures, 
representing- both the modern men and the old masters. There 
are some marbles of purity and beauty, and rare antique vases 
and curios that it would be difficult to rival, and in many cases 
impossible to duplicate. In this lovely home of art, the Western 
Art Association held its monthly meetings, and listened to abie 
lectures b}- members of the association and invited guests from 
abroad. 

Previous to the organization of the Western Art Associa- 
tion, there had been several clubs formed for the advancement 
of art culture and feeling in Omaha. The first was twenty 
years ag-o, when art in Omaha was void and without form. It 
was in 1877 when Mrs. C. F. Catlin organized a sketch class, which 
did pioneer work, until the ladies of Trinity church formed 
another club in 1879. which was succeeded in 1881 by the "Social 
Art Club of Omaha." 

These were the first stars to shine in the firmament of art in 
Omaha, and they continued to illumine the art skies until the 
sun of the Western Art Association rose above the horizon. 

When the association was at its zenith, it started an art 
school with casts and models, a north light and all the equip- 
ments of modern times. This was under the direction of J. 
Laurie Wallace. The school was finally closed, owing to the 
business depression that made its financial success impossible. 

About this time the Omaha Sketch club was formed with a 
score of male artists and students enrolled as members. It also 
had a fine assortment of casts and bric-a-brac. Its evenings 
were spent in drawing from the living model. Its officers were : 
Albert Rothery, president; M. M. Henninger, vice president; 
Mark A. Pollock, treasurer, and J. W. Bennett, secretary. 

These men finally scattered to different parts of the world, 
in pursuit of further art knowledge, and the sketch club, after 
dividing its casts and bric-a-brac among the members, became 
a thing of the memory only. 

In addition to Mr. Laninger's galler)- of art, there are many 
fine private collections of art works, that are beautiful and 
costly. 

Judge J. M. Woolworth has a collection that contains works 
by Herring, Corot, Rousseau, and others. 

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Mr. J. H. N. Patrick also has a fine collection, which includes 
works b}- the Dupres, George Inness, William Hart, Bierstadt, 
and others. 

Herman Kountze, and many others of our wealthy citizens 
have private collections of paintings that are worth)- of extended 
mention. 

In the outskirts of the city, near Florence, Mr. Fred Parker 
has a large studio built for his private use, and also owns a col- 
lection of paintings. He is a man of wealth, and will undoubtedly 
add to those he now possesses. 

Among the Omaha artists who are meeting - with deserved 
success, are J. Laurie Wallace, whose studio is in the Williams 
building-, Fifteenth and Dodge ; Albert Rothery, who was 
awarded the Western Art Association gold medal, whose studio 
is in the U. S. Bank building-, Twelfth and Farnam streets ; J. K. 
O'Neill, who is in the Sheeley Block ; Miss Fannie Snowden and 
Mrs. Francis Mumaug-h, who make flowers and still life a 
specialty, and who, with Mrs. Fannie Bachman, china painter, 
are in the Paxton Block ; Miss Melona Butterfield, ceramic pain- 
ter, and who was awarded the g-old medal for the best china 
painting - by the Western Art Association, also two World's Fair 
medals, and whose pleasant studio is in the New York Life 
building - . 

This is a brief synopsis of the art of Omaha to date. The 
city is filled with amateurs and connoisseurs, and all are looking 
forward with joy and expectancy to the opening- of the Art 
Palace of the Trans-Mississippi Exposition, which will be under 
the directorship of Mr. J. H. Griffith, of the Detroit Museum of 
Art, who is eminently fitted for the position, and who will 
undoubtedly make of the occasion the greatest exhibition of 
works of art ever seen in the west. 

AMUSEMENTS. 

Aside from the usual round of social g-aities common to all of 
our western cities, the theaters form the chief diversion of 
Omaha people during- the winter. From the opening of the 
theatrical season early in Septemoer until the close in June, the 
two principal theaters supply a variety of attractions, ranging 
from heavy drama and grand opera, to cheap burlesque and farce 
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price dramatic company holds the boards at one of the theaters, 
thus affording- continuous diversion to theater goers. 

Athletic sports are the staple amusement of the younger 
part of the population during the summer, and baseball, bicycling, 
football, tennis and golf each has its hundreds of stories, and 
numerous clubs help to maintain the interest in each. The Y. M. 
C. A. gymnasium affords ample opportunities to those who find 
pleasure in the use of apparatus for indoor exercise Those fond 
of swimming and boating will find facilities for the exercise of 
these sports at Lake Manawa, three miles south of Council 
Bluffs, and Courtland Beach in East Omaha. Each of these 
lakes is fitted up with every appliance for furthering the sports, 
and during the entire season some kind of vaudeville entertain- 
ment is offered for the amusement of the guests. 

Music is by no means a lost art in Omaha, for aside from the 
fine music furnished by the churches, and the regular open air 
band concerts, through the instrumentality of the various musi- 
cal societies, the people are enabled to hear the best traveling 
artists in this county. 

HACK ORDINANCE. 

Rates of Fare. 

First — For conveying one passenger from one railroad depot 
to another, when within two miles of each other, 50 cents. Each 
additional passenger (children excepted ), when of the same party 
or family and when the fare for all is paid by one person, 25 
cents. 

Second — For coiive3 r ing one passenger from one point tol 
another within the following limits, to-wit : South side of Ban- 
croft street on the south, north side of Grace street on the north. 
west side of Twenty-fourth street on the west, and the Missouri 
river on the east, 50 cents. Each additional passenger, withiij 
said limits, of the same party or family, 25 cents. 

Third— For conveying one passenger one mile, or part of 
mile, outside limits named in second paragraph, 50 cents. Eacl 
additional passenger, when of the same party or family, 25 cents 

Fourth— For conveying children between the ages of 5 anj 
12 years within the limits in paragraph 2, and for each mile 
part of a mile outside the same, 25 cents. Children under 
years free. 

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Fifth — For the use of any carriage or vehicle drawn by two 
or more animals by the hour with one or more passengers, with 
privilege of going from place to place and stopping as often and 
long as may be required, $2 for the first hour. Each additional 
hour or part of an hour, SI. 

Sixth — In all cases when the hiring of a hack, coach, cab or 
other vehicle for the conveyance of passengers is not, at the 
time of the hiring thereof specified to be by the hour, it shall be 
deemed to be by the mile, and for any detention exceeding 
fifteen minutes, when so working by the mile, the owner or 
driver may demand at the rate of SI per hour. 

Seventh — For the use of any hack, cab, or other vehicle 
drawn by one animal, by the hour, with the privilege of going 
from place to place, with one or more passengers, and stopping 
as often and long as may be required, SI. Bach additional hour 
or part of any hour, 75 cents. 

Eighth — Every passenger -hall be allowed conveyance, with- 
out charge, upon the vehicles herein named, or his or her 
ordinary band baggage, and each and every passenger paying 
tbe full fare of 50 cents herein provided shall be entitled to free 
Conveyance, upon the vehicles named, or the baggage wagons 
running in connection therewith, of one trunk not exceeding 150 
Bounds in weight, 25 cents may be collected, and for each and 
fcvery trunk, not exceeding 150 pounds weight, belonging to pas- 
mgers paying only 25 cent- fare. 25 cents maybe collected. 
The provisions of this section shall also apply to transfer and 
baggage lines hauling trunk- and similar baggage in connec- 
tion with the carriage of passengers; provided, that when one or 
more trunks are taken from or delivered to point and under 
the conditions prescribed for wherein the carriage, unaccom- 
panied by passengers, the same rate may be charged therefor 
as is allowed to be charged for passengers alone. 

PICNIC GROUNDS. 

Picnics are a great feature of summer life in Omaha. 
[Nearly every social organization gives at least one picnic annu- 
ally. Every nationality represented in the city must enjoy its 
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directions loaded down with merrymakers for a day's outing- in 
some of the chosen groves in the vicinity. Smaller parties find 
numerous grounds nearer home, supplied with all things neces- 
sary to make these gatherings a pleasant success. Fairmount park 
and L,ake Manawa, while lying on the Iowa side of the river, are 
easily accessible to Omaha pleasure seekers. Courtland Beach, 
to which motors run from the city every ten minutes, surrounds 
a natural lake of beautiful water, to which has been added a neat 
little pavillion, bathing and boating conveniences, a menagerie 
and. switch back railway. Pries lake, seven miles north of the 
city and the various public parks are convenient and suitable 
places for the purpose. 

CLUBS. 

The Omaha Club is the oldest now existing in the city. It is 
a purely social organization, which numbers among its members 
many of the substantial business men of Omaha. A few years 
ago they completed a very handsome white stone club house, on 
the corner of Twentieth and Douglas streets, at a cost of about 
$200,000. The next most important of the large clubs is the 
Metropolitan, a Jewish club, also formed, for social purposes, and 
the owner of a fine club building on Harney street. The mem- 
bers of the Woman's club, elsewhere mentioned, are contemplat- 
ing the erection of a building of their own. Athletic clubs, 
bicycle clubs, literary clubs, and clubs of travel, of sculpture, of 
painting, and of ceramics, each have a large list of enthusiastic 
members. 

The Knights of Ak=Sar=Ben is a semi-social and semi-busi- 
ness organization. It was formed for the purpose of affording 
evening entertainment for the strangers who visit Omaha dur- 
ing the State Fair. For several evenings they give an electri- 
cal display with parades, which attract visitors from all over the 
west, and close the fete with a grand ball, which is the social 
event of the season. This organization, aside from its primary 
object of attracting visitors to the fair, has done more to unite 
the business interests of the city and to awaken popular enthu- 
siasm in public undertakings than any other agency. To them 
is due to a great extent the credit of making the exposition pos- 
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The Commercial Club, as its name implies, is an organiza 
tion formed by the business and professional men of the city, to 
further the commercial interests of Omaha. Its building, on the 
corner of Sixteenth and Farnam streets, contains the offices and 
halls of the club and the reception rooms for the entertainment 
of the guests of the city. The use of the halls is free to any 
association organized to promote the welfare of the city. The 
club has been especially active and successful in securing better 
transportation and insurance rates; in inducing outside capita- 
lists to invest in Omaha enterprises; in opening up new territory 
to the Omaha jobbing trade, and finding new outlets for its 
manufactured products. During the past year it has exerted 
every effort to further the success of the exposition. The work 
has been mostly along the lines of securing a great attendance. 
1 hrough its efforts the greatest number of important conven- 
tions ever held in any city in the United States in a single year 
will be held in Omaha during the exposition. 

LODGES AND SOCIETIES. 

Omaha is abundantly supplied with secret, beneficiary and 
social lodges and societies. Every association of any prominence 
in the United States is represented in Omaha. Her best citizens 
are members, active in their welfare and heavy contributors to 
their maintenance. Omaha is considered the fountain head in 
the northwest for fraternal news and advance thought along 
these lines. She is the home of many fraternal public speakers; 
headquarters of the Woodmen of the World, one of the largest 
beneficiary orders in the country, also the headquarters of 
the Knights of the Forest, are located in Omaha, the place 
of their birth ; the Fraternal Union of America is a semi- 
Omaha institution and its entire organization forces, consisting 
of seventy-five deputies, at work in thirty states, are, managed 
from Omaha. Other smaller institutions have headquarters in 
this city, some of which may yet develop into large permanent 
organizations, and thus contribute to the importance of Omaha 
as a great center of western fraternal interests. All informa- 
tion as to the different orders established here, with time and 
place of their meetings, may be found in the city directory. The 
list covers about eight pages of that volume. 

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GOVERNMENT BUILDING. 

The new government building-, now nearing completion, has 
taken six years in construction. The site covers one block and 
was bought at a cost of $400,000. The dimensions of the struc- 
ture are 135x218 feet, and the apex of the tower is 200 feet above 
the ground. It is, of course, entirely fire proof, being constructed 
of Colorado granite, with tile floors on steel frames. It consists 
of four stories and a basement. The first floor and the basement 
will be utilized by the postoffice department. The second floor 
will be occupied by the surveyor of customs, the collector of 
internal revenue, the railway mail service and the secret service. 
The third floor contains two large court rooms, offices for the 
federal judge, the clerk of the court, the district attorney and the 
United States marshal. On the fourth floor will be found the 
United States weather bureau and the jury rooms. The tower 
will contain one of the largest clocks in the country, the diaJ 
measuring twelve feet in diameter. The cost of the building is 
$1,000,000, making a total cost of $1,400,000. One of the interest- 
ing features to visitors is the glass mosaic ceiling of the vesti- 
bule, done at a cost of about $16,000. Th" , is the first work of the 
kind attempted in the west, and is the special feature, which has 
added so much to the beauty of the great library buildings 
of Boston and Chicago and the library of congress at "Wash- 
ington. 

SIGNAL SERVICE. 

Omaha is one of the points selected by the general govern- 
ment for the establishment of a Weather Bureau. L. A. Welch 
is in charge and under his management the people of this vicinity 
are becoming alive to the practical value of this service. The 
object of this service generally is to make forecasts of the 
weather from 24 to 36 hours in advance for the practical value of 
this knowledge as bearing upon agriculture and commerce. 
These observations are made from all points in the United States 
at precisely the same time, 8 o'clock A. M., 75th meridian time. 
These observations consist of : Noting the barometer reduced 
to sea level, temperature of the air, dew-point of the air, relative 
humidity, direction and velocity of the wind, state of the weather, 
kind of clouds — upper and lower, movement of clouds, and 

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amount of precipitation since last observation. This information 
is immediately placed upon the circuit in cipher and reaches 
almost simultaneously all the different stations in the country 
where the information is of value, as bearing- on their forecasts, 
and the main western office at Chicago and the chief office at 
Washington. As the reports of the whole west reach Chicago 
at almost the same time, forecasts are at once made up and tele- 
graphed to all western offices, whence they are sent to all post- 
masters in country town.-, and there displayed by flags and 
bulletins. This news is generally widespread by 9 A. M.. local 
time. The peculiar conditions of the climate in this section 
makes it unnecessary to take into account the conditions to the 
east. All forecasts are therefore made from observations taken 
h.-re and to the west. The local office distributes 300 weather 
map8 daily in and about Omaha and sends out by mail about 400 
weather forecast cards, which are delivered by carrier in the 
morning. 

NEWSPAPERS AND PERIODICALS. 

The newspapers of thecity have always worked harmoniously 
for the advancement of the city and the development of the west. 
To them, more than any other agency, is due the credit of pro- 
posing the Exposition and carrying it to a successful issue. 

There are six daily and thirty weekly, tri-weekly and monthly 
newspapers published in Omaha. There are two great daily 
papers in the English language. That two are enough to meet 
all requirements, is explained by the fact, that both issue morn- 
ing and evening editions, with sometimes hourly specials, when 
the public interest demands. 

The Omaha Bee, founded and controlled by E. Rosewater, 
has played a prominent part in the history of the west. From a 
very small beginning it has developed into one of the most far- 
reaching and influential journals of the western half of the 
country. Its one-roomed office of twenty years ago has been 
transformed into one of the largest, most substantial, and most 
perfectly appointed newspaper buildings in the world. In poli- 
tics the Bee is independent, but generally, especially on national 
questions, leans strongly to republicanism. The keen, incisive 
editorials in which the Bee has discussed all public questions, 
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difference of opinion ma}- exist as to its methods in conducting- a 
campaign, there is never an) r doubt as to which side of the ques- 
tion it espouses. To Mr. Rosewater belongs the credit of first 
proposing the Exposition, and as manager of the department of 
publicity and promotion and as editor of the Bee he has labored 
untiringly for its success. 

The WorId= Herald, as its name indicates, was founded by 
the consolidation of the World and the Herald. Gilbert M. 
Hitchcock has controlled -the paper from the first. Mr. Hitch- 
cock, until his resignation, was an influential member of the 
executive committee of the Exposition directory and was manager 
of the department of promotion. His exertions were especially 
directed toward securing the mobilization of the troops of the reg- 
ular army and the National Guards at Omaha during the Expo- 
sition. In politics the World-Herald is independent, but has been 
an earnest champion of free silver. It is working for the fusion of 
the populists with the free silver wing of the democratic party, 
and was the official organ of the Hon. W. J. Brj-an in the late 
presidential campaign. 

BANKS AND BANKING. 

There are eight national banks doing business in Omaha and 
three in South Omaha. The combined paid up capital of these 
banks is $4,150,000. On October 1, 1897, they had deposits to the 
extent of 819.050,208. On the same date their reports sent to the 
comptroller of the treasury showed their resources to be $24,713,- 
457. The majority of these banks are controlled and officered 
by men who have grown with the city, and the conservative man- 
ner in which this business is conducted, is a guarantee to the 
depositors, that the banks of Omaha are entirely safe. That 
business is improving in Omaha, is best shown by the reports of 
the clearing house. It must be remembered that the three banks 
of South Omaha are not members of the Omaha Clearing House 
Association, and that therefore the immense live stock transac- 
tions, which take place daily, are not included in this report. 

Clearings for 1895 ^190,643,238.87 i Clearings for May I 19,041,300.22 

Clearings for 18d6 210.141,334 28 ; Clearings for June 19,760.848.55 

Clearings for Jan 17,738,899 70 1 Clearings for July 19,717.056.73 



Clearings for Feb 15,812,144.02 

Clearings lor Men 18,456,444.39 

Clearings for April.... 17,513,507.53 



Clearings for Aug 19.331,558.28 

Clearings for Sept.... 23.230,190.18 
Clearings for Oct 25.613.457.91 



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REAL ESTATE. 

Money has been made in real estate investments in Omaha. 
Money can be made again is being made now — in Omaha realty. 
There have been losses in this class of investments in Omaha, 
it must be admitted. So has there been depreciation in value in 
real estate holdings in all cities, and in farm property as well. 

tea in the past ten years have not been con lined to those 
met in real estate, however; stocks in banks, railroads, manufac- 
turing- enterprises, mines, have all broken in value under the 
strain of the past decade. But shrewd men do not stop putting 
their money into investments because other men under unfavo- 
rable circumstances or through mistaken judgment have met 
loss in the same lines. So it is that the wise and far sighted 
investor will see in Omaha an attractive opening for dealing 
profitably in real estate. This for several reasons: 

First, in the western city that is established as a business 
center for a large, fertile and constantly improving section of 
country, as is Omaha, it is always a certainty that real estate 
values will advance as the population increases and business 
expands. This is especially true of Omaha, one of the great 
gateways to the vast Trans-Missouri region, with its rapidly 
growing population, a region having products and importance 
sufficient to support its metropolis. 

Second, during the prevalence of that remarkable business 
movement known as the "real estate boom of the 'SO's," there 
was not in Omaha the wild speculation, and crazy buying 
and selling at fabulous prices that existed in nearly every other 
city of this class. Choice inside business property and the best 
located residence property, never attained the high fig-tire 
reached elsewhere. There are g-ood reasons for this fact, which 
space prevents mentioning- here. It is also a fact that in the 
past few years of terrible depression, caused b) r panic and drouth 
In cruel succession, values of well situated property have not 
been reduced much below the figures of the boom days. 

A third reason why Omaha's real estate interests are worth 
considering at the present time by the investor, is the fact that 
the purchaser now gets the benefit of special improvements paid 
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taxes have all been a severe drain on real estate owners in the 
past ten years. He who buys now, will, in most cases, be 
relieved of this burden, and yet will have all the benefit of these 
improvements. 

The foundation of the fortunes of nearly every one of 
Omaha's wealthy citizens has been laid in real estate. There 
seems to be no g-ood reason why that which has been accom- 
plished in the past ten or twelve years by judicious investment 
in Omaha real estate, may not be accomplished in the next ten 
or twelve j T ears. Certainly there were never more tempting 
opportunities in that line, coupled with surer values, and more 
probable remunerative returns, than are those offered today in 
Omaha to the careful dealer in real estate. 

RETAIL BUSINESS. 

The retail trade of Omaha is one of the most important 
features in her mercantile operations. There are more than 
1,600 individual firms engag-ed in the retail trade in Omaha, and 
whilst other cities may boast of a greater amount of capital 
invested in this branch of trade, the merchants of very few of 
them have passed through the late depression and are able to 
make as good a showing as can the retail merchants of Omaha. 

Failures in business among them have been few and unim- 
portant, whilst the evidences of growth have been apparent in 
spite of adverse conditions. Very few chang-es have taken place, 
and nearly all who were in business before the hard times began, 
are keeping store at the old stand, and today are better equipped 
for business than ever before. 

About two years ago, the retailers of Omaha, believing that 
organized effort could accomplish more than individual work, 
organized the Omaha Retailers Association. This organization 
began active operations by directing its efforts toward the lower- 
ing of the then excessive rates charged for fire insurance. This 
was a popular movement and enlisted the united support of all 
retail merchants and property owners. This effort was so suc- 
cessful that a ten per cent reduction was secured on all business 
risks, and twenty per cent reduction on residence property and 
contents, and the end is not yet. 

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The Megeath Stationery Co. 




HE MEGEATH STATIONERY CO., at 1308 Far- 
nam street, the home of this Guide Book, is one of 
the oldest established business houses in this city. 
Under the name of John S. Caulfield, its founder, 
it was conducted from 1866 to 1892. In August. 
1892. with the change in ownership, it became the 
Megeath Stationery' Co. The goods handled by 
this company consist of a large and varied line of standard and 
miscellaneous books, school books, bibles and praj-er books, fine 
stationery and engraving, office stationery, blank books and 
school supplies. The news counter is always stocked with a 
full assortment of the current magazines and other periodicals 
and the daily papers of all the principal cities in the United 
States. The business is both wholesale and retail. Sample 
rooms are fitted up for the inspection of wholesale customers 
who wish to combine business with pleasure during the Exposi- 
tion and an effort will be made b}- quality, assortment and 
prices to add to our list many new customers in our territory, 
which is, in fact, the whole trans-Mississippi country-. A feature 
of interest to all visitors is our magnificent poster display which 
covers about 1,500 square feet of wall space. This is the largest 
and most valuable mounted collection of posters in the world. 



1308 Farnam St. -#- Telephone 234. 



The association next addressed itself to the securing of better 
depot facilities for the city of Omaha, and while it has not yet 
secured the Union Depot for which it has striven so hard, this 
improvement is nearer to the city than it ever has been before, 
and the fact that a depot building is now being built for the city 
is due in a large measure to the efforts of the Omaha Retailers 
Ass< >ciati< »n. 

Among the things which the Omaha Retailers A — elation, 
uid the retail merchants in general, hope to secure in the future, 
ire better collection Laws, the regulation of transient tradesmen 
rod fake dealers by a properlj adjusted License system, and 
various other reforms, which will especially help the retail 
dealers, and the public at Lai 

Never has there been a period when the retail dealers 
Omaha have so earnestly considered plans f< >r bettering trade, 
and business in general, as at the present. They have most 
Liberally contributed of their means to every enterprise which 
ass been for the best interests of their city. They have shown 
heir patriotism to their home city and to their state, and to the 
krhole west by their loyal support of the Trans-Mississippi and 
International Exposition. 

WHOLESALE INTERESTS. 

As the railroad facilities of Omaha arc unsurpassed by am 
:ity west of the Mississippi river, and a^ its Location makes it 
he natural depot of supplies for the great agricultural, mining 
nd stock raising regions of the west, it follows as a matter of 
►urse that Omaha has built up great jobbing interests. There 
re about 250 firms, Large and small, engaged in the wholesale 

Usiness in this city. They have a capital invested of fully 
10,000,000, and their annual sales range from $40,000,000 to 
<><>, iii)0,000. The number of employes of all kinds engaged in 
liis business is about 5,000. There are about 2,000 commercial 
ravelers resident in this city, who make periodical trips over 
leir territory. The territory covered by these men collectively, 
xtends from the Missouri river to the Coast, and from the 

Iritish possessions to the Gulf, with the states of Iowa and 
issouri included. As the wholesale firms of Omaha meet all 






the requirements of a highly civilized, people engaged in indus- 
tries widely diverging- all the different lines of merchandise are 
represented in this city. In each of the more important lines 
there are several houses which employ from ten to twenty-five 
traveling salesmen each. The most important lines are agricultu- 
ral implements, groceries, boots and shoes, dry goods, hardware, 
drugs, furniture, clothing, hats and caps, lumber, coal, rubber 
goods, paper, books and stationery, liquors, cigars and tobacco, 
fish and oysters, paint and glass, jewelry, toys and fancy goods, 
photographic supplies, stoves and ranges, seeds, surgical 
instruments, and many less important lines. Omaha has for 
some years been a port of entr3', and as importations from 
foreign countries are received here in bond, the delay and 
expense of clearing at a border port is avoided. Omaha ranks 
seventh among the interior districts in point of collections. As 
in point of population che settlement of this territory has barely 
begun, the wholesale firms of Omaha must steadily increase in 
number and importance. 

MANUFACTURING. 

Until comparatively recent years the people of Omaha and 
the west generally have been dependent upon the east for alll 
manufactured products. But recently great changes have been| 
taking place. On account of its situation in relacion to the greal 
mining, stock raising, and agricultural states of the west, greal 
factories have sprung up which equal, if they do not surpass] 
anything of like kind in the world. With them, and dependent 
upon them, others have entered the field. While the develop] 
raent of the great coal mines of the mountain states is making i| 
possible and profitable for all kinds of manufacturing to be carl 
ried on here successfully. Few even of the residents of the cit^ 
are aware of the extent of the manufacturing interests no\j 
established. A careful investigation shows that all claims evej 
made by this city are far too low. There are in this city todai 
more than 200 industrial establishments, furnishing emplo}! 
ment to at least 15,000 men, with an invested capital of abot{ 
$35,000,000. The value of the annual total output of these estal 
lishments will exceed $100,000,000. In fact, it is extremely prol 
able, that the packing houses alone within the next few yeaij 
will exceed that sum. 

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The packing houses are the greatest of Omaha's manufac- 
turing- plants. Their annual distributive sales amount to more 
than if 60, 000, 000. The number of men on their pay-rolls is 7,150, 
and they collectively draw a salary of a trifle over $3,500,000 
annually. The capital invested in the five plants will exceed 
110,000,000. Thirteen years ago the site of these immense buildings 
was a farm surrounded by other farms, lying- four miles from the 
city. From the nature of their products it is certain that these 
institutions will grow in the future as they have in the past. 
With the great plant of Armour in operation, the competition 
between the buyers will become more keen with a tendency to 
higher prices which will attract shipments from a wider radius, 
while with the development of the farm lands of the western 
states, the conversion of the ranges into cornfields and tame 
grass pastures, the production of stock of a better grade will be 
increased tenfold. The business of this year shows an increase 
over that of last of about twenty-five per cent. More than ninety 
per cent of the stock received at the yards is slaughtered here. 

While the killing of cattle and hog-s and their transformation 
into pork and beef is not a particularly elevating- sight, the 
immensity of these institutions and the skill and celerity with 
which this work is accomplished, attracts many visitors. Thel 
stock yards are open to all visitors, but to g-o through the pack-l 
ing- houses a pass is necessary. This can be obtained without| 
difficulty by applying- at the office. It would be a pleasure t< 
give a description of all the enormous plants operated at Soutl 
Omaha by the Armour, Swift, Cudahy, Hammond, and Omah; 
companies, but the lack of space forbids. We therefore selec^ 
for our purpose the Cudahy Packing- Co., which by reason of its 
volume of business and the great variety of its products, makes 
it representative of them all. The history of this concern shows 
a rapid and continuous growth from its beginning- and furnishes: 
a fine example of what zeal, energy and business sagacity will 
accomplish. During the decade which marks its existence, 
has developed until now under the one corporate name, nearb 
a score of different kinds of manufacturing are carried on. Asidj 
from the usual slaughtering- and curing departments, there arj 
separate and complete factories for making soaps, commerci; 
fertilizers, oleo oil, neutral lard, buttcrine, glue, beef extracl 
pepsin and other pharmaceutical preparations. The compani 



also has its own extensive car, machine, blacksmith, cooperage 
and tin shops, box factory, refrigerator and tank car lines. This 
company has representatives and does business in every state in 
the Union and in addition sells every year products worth mill- 
ions to various portions of Europe, Mexico, Canada, South 
America, Japan, China, etc. Its special brands, "Rex" and 
"Diamond C," have become the recognized standards of excel- 
lence wherever introduced, which accounts for the company's won- 
derful hold on its almost numberless patrons. The soap works, 
seven stories high and fitted with the most modern and complete 
appliances, are the latest addition to this great institution. 

The plant of this gigantic company covers a ground area of 
twenty-five acres and a floor space of nearly eighty acres. The 
aggregate sales are more than twenty-five millions of dollars 
annually or an average of $80,000 for every single business day. 
Its outbound products and incoming supplies fill nearly 100 cars 
daily. And this is only one of the five great packing concerns of 
which South Omaha boasts. If the pace of the past ten years 
continues, the early part of the next century may see concen- 
trated here the most extensive live stock and packing interests 
known to mankind. 

The Smelting Works. The business of the Omaha and 
Grant Smelting Co. has reached such proportions as to make the 
operation of its great plant in Omaha one of the most conspicu- 
ous factors in the city's industrial activity. The history of the 
company's development, if written in full, would be a tolerably 
respectable story of the marvelous growth of smelting and min- 
ing operations in the western mineral regions. As long ago as 
1870, so the record goes, the Omaha Smelting and Refining Co. 
was organized with a capital stock of $60,000. W. W. Lowe, John 
A. Haroach and E. W. Nash were prominentl) r connected with 
the organization, the latter being its secretary. Later, Leopold 
Balbach, C. B. Rustin, Charles W. Meade and others became identi- 
fied with the company, and Charles Balbach was for a long time 
its general superintendent. In 1882 the company was reorganized 
and consolidated with the Grant Smelting Company of Denver, 
Colo. The capital stock was increased to $2,500,000, the name of 
the company changed to the Omaha and Grant Smelting Co. and 
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president, with J. B. Grant of Denver, vice president, E.W. Nash, 
who had been prominently identified with the business from the 
beginning-, secretary and treasurer,. Edward Eddy, general man- 
ager and W. H. James, superintendent. Since that time, under 
the wise direction of the present general officers and the co-oper- 
ation of their local superintendents the operations of the com- 
pany have greatly expanded, until its position at the head of like 
institutions is generally conceded. In addition to its extensive 
works in Omaha and Denver this company controls and operates 
the line plant of the San Juan Smelting and Mining Co. at Du- 
rango, Col., and has important interests in British Columbia. The 
principal office of the company is in Omaha, where President 
Barton and Secretary Nash reside. The Omaha works include 
an extensive roasting and smelting department, the refinery, and 
a complete blue stone plant. Base bullion from Denver, Duran- 
go, Salt Eake City and Clayton, Idaho ; rich gold and copper 
mattes from the Black Hills smelters and Trail Creek, British 
Columbia ; cyanides from the extensive Mercur district, Utah, 
and great quantities of furnace and mill products from other 
localities are refined in Omaha, so that the total output of precious 
metals and baser products run well iuto the millions. A better 
idea of these items can be gotten from the following approximate 
figures for 1897 : Gold, 325.000 ounces ; silver, 12.750,000 ounces 
lead, 79,550,000 pounds ; copper, 2,660,000 pounds ; blue vitriol. 
7,259,000 pounds. The approximate value of this year's output 
will be $18,000,000. From 500 to 700 men are employed at the 
Omaha works, and the pay-roll averages about $30,000 per month. 

Carter White Lead Works is one of Omaha's largest manu- 
facturing institutions, and on account of the nature of its pro- 
duct, has been operated here successfully. Being situated in the 
center of the flax producing country and at the same point with 
the largest smelter and linseed oil mill in the west, it is enabled 
to manufacture successfully the highest grade of white lead oiil 
the market. Another plant by the same company has beenj 
recently established in Chicago. The combined capacity of th< 
two plants is 30.000 tons, and is the largest white lead manufac- 
turing institution in the world. All the stock is owned by Omah; 
capitalists; $1,000,000 is invested, and the annual output amounts 
to over $3,000,000. Employment is furnished to about 200 menl 
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maintained at the following points: Now York. St. Louis 
Buffalo, .St. Paul, Detroit, Chicago, Philadelphia, Cleveland, 
New Orleans. Boston and San Francisco. 

The Woodman Linseed Oil Works, the largest in the Trans- 
Mississippi country, is one of the oldest manufacturing institu- 
tions in Omaha, having been in continuous operation since 1S72. 
During that time it has manufactured over 5.000,000 bushels of 
flaxseed into linseed oil and linseed oil cake. The process of 
manufacturing at these works is called the old process, because 
the oil is extracted from the seed by hydraulic pressure, which is 
theoldest and only mean.-, of producing oil without contamina- 
tion with chemical liquids, that not only produce an inferior 
quality, but renders the oil impure. In connection with the mill 
r is one of the largest elevators in Omaha, with a capacity 
of 800,000 bushels of flaxseed, while several large tanks have a 
capacity of 500,000 gallons of linseed oil. Within the next few 
months new and improved machinery will be added, which will 
not only increase the capacity of the works, but will largely 
increase the number of men employed. 

Sugar Beet Factories. With the assured success of the culti- 
vation of the sugar beet in this and surrounding states, the 
establishment of factories for the purpose of manufacturing 
sugar has become a necessity. The actual experience of several 

years cultivation shows that this product can be produced in 
this vicinity with a saccharine strength almost double that of 
the Old World. To meet the requirements of this new industry, 
a great beet sugar and glucose plant will be constructed in South 
Omaha during the exposition year. Another of perhaps still 
greater proportions will be built in East Omaha. The location 
of Omaha in the midst of this district makes it the natural 
center for such manufacture and the next decade will probably 
see dozens of factories in full operation here with a capacity 
equal to supplying the markets of this country. 

The Breweries. Omaha has four large breweries, the out- 
put of which is largely taking the place in the western states of 
the beer which had been formerly shipped here from Milwaukee 
and St. Louis. The amount invested in these breweries is about 
$1,750,000; the annual capacity about 375,000 barrels. The num- 
ber of men employed is about 150. 

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The Willow Springs Distillery is one of the most perfectly 
appointed plants of the kind in the world. The finished quality 
of its products has created a general demand and the plant is 
consequently generally run to its full capacity. This is about 
3,000 bushels per day or slightly over a million per year. In 
connection with the distillery, an important cattle feeding- plant 
is maintained and about 3,000 head of cattle are required to pre- 
vent waste. There are about 175 men engaged in the work 
proper, the cooper shop and the care of the cattle. 

The Firm of Farrell & Co. has been engaged for a number 
of years in the manufacture of syrups, molasses, jellies and pre- 
serves, baking powder, and a number of other articles. They 
are also extensively engaged in the manufacture of tinware. 
This firm has been very successful and has built up a stead}- 
trade, which covers the whole Trans-Mississippi country. 

The National Oil and Paint Co. of this city manufactures 
all the kinds of paint known to the trade. They cover, with 
their traveling salesmen, nine of the surrounding states. 

It is impossible in a book of this nature to give an adequate 
description of the various industrial institutions located here, 
and we must be content to name some of the most important. 
There are more than a thousand men engaged in the working of 
iron, in the manufacture of structural iron, boilers, engines, 
locomotives, and agricultural implements. Three clothing manu- 
facturing firms, with an invested capital of $1,000,000 give work 
to nearly a thousand employes. The Bemis Omaha Bag Com- 
pany supply the grain and flour trade of the west with the pro- 
duct of their factory. There are twenty different cigar factories • 
in the city employing each from four to thirty men. There are a 
number of printing houses and blank book manufacturers. There 
are three large confectionary establishments. There are aside 
from those already named, from one to five firms engaged in the 
manufacture of each of the following articles: Baking powder 
and extracts, envelopes, boxes, brick, brooms, pearl buttons, 
carriages and wagons, sash, doors and blinds, health food, 
corsets, crackers, steam pumps, saddles and harness, horse 
collars, tinware, lead and shot, marble and granite works, 
mirrors, flour, patterns and models, pickles, vinegar and mustard, 

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caskets and. coffins, refrigerators, shirts, stock food, and reme- 
dies, jellies and preserves, syrups and molasses, trunks, umbrel- 
las, yeast, musical instruments, jewelry, boots and shoes, furni- 
ture and mattresses, hats and caps, tents and awning's, wire, 
tiles, nails, artificial stone, and a number of others. 

THE STOCK YARDS. 

The present site of South Omaha was thirteen j-ears ago 
nothing but farm and pasture land. Toda}- it is one of the three 
greatest live stock markets in the world, and at the present rate 
of growth will soon be second, if not finally first. Five great 
packing houses, with other industries incident to a live stock 
market, have built up a city of over 15,000 inhabitants, which is 
probably the most bustling, thriving and substantial city of its 
size in the world. 

The cause of the phenomenal growth of this great industry 
is found in the fact, that Omaha is situated in the midst of the 
great corn belt and to the east of the great stock ranges. 
which extend from the British possessions to Mexico and the 
Gulf. Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas and Missouri, the four great corn 
producing states, surround this common center, and find a 
market here for their finished stock, while at the same time it is 
the nearest market to the ranges of Montana. Washington. Ore- 
gon, Idaho. Utah, Colorado, Nevada, the Dakotas. "Wyoming and 
Indian Territory, which furnishes an inexhaustible supply of 
both cattle and sheep to be either slaughtered here, if in condi- 
tion, or to be fitted for the block by feeders in this corn belt. 
These reasons, with the perfect railroad facilities and the great 
packers established here. — Cudahy, Swift. Hammond. Armour 
and the Omaha Packing Co.. — guarantee that the importance of 
this market can but increase with time. 

The present capacity of the yards is estimated at 620 cars of 
cattle, 15,000 head ; 375 cars of hogs, 25.000 head, 70 double decks 
of sheep, 15.000 head, and 50 cars of horses. 1,000 head. About 80 
acres are now covered with pens, barns, sheds, and other build- 
ings necessary for carrying on the business, while other land is 
being graded, to be used for the same purpose. The shedding, 
drainage and water service is perfect and quick transportation is 
arranged for by a network of tracks and switches. The cattle 
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S25.245.360. an increase over 1896 of 255,174 head, and an increase 
in value of $6,418,435. Hog-s, 1.594,038, brought $15,241,480. 
increase over 1896 of 396,400 head, increase in value of $4,772,138. 
Sheep, 612.803, brought $2,174,550, increase over 1875 of 79,471. 
and increase in value of $1,257,887. Horses, 6,632, a decrease 
under 1896 of 3,021. Total number of cars received 60,083, an 
increase over 1896 of 16,319. 

Largest receipts of stock in one day: Cattle, Sept. 20, 1897, 
8,704 ; hog-s, July 31, 1894, 20,684 ; sheep, May 21, 1896, 10,837 ; 
horses and mules, June 6. 1889, 718 ; cars, July 10, 1894, 490. 

PARKS AND BOULEVARDS. 

While the park board of Omaha, as at present constituted, is 
of comparatively recent origin, its work has been of incalculable 
value to the future of the city. A chain of parks, selected for 
their location and natural adaptability, now surrounds the city 
and are to be connected by a system of magnificent boulevards, 
a part of which is already completed. The principal objection 
to the location of the parks at the time of their selection was 
that they were too far from the heart of the cit}-, but the desira- 
bility of residence in their vicinity and the gradual expansion of 
the city have brought them well within the limits. There are 
now eight parks aggregating 543 x /z acres and valued at more 
than a million and a half. 

Hanscom Park, the best known and most popular, lies in the 
southwestern part of the city and contains S7}i acres. It was 
donated to the city by two of the pioneer citizens, Mr. A. J. 
Hanscom and Mr. J. G. Megeath. This park possessed great 
natural advantages which have been richly supplemented bv the 
artisan's skill. New roadways, bridlepaths, walks and entrances 
were made, and considerable grading done. Two lakes were 
provided at the south side, water being provided by the city 
waterworks. Both lakes are well stocked with fish that furnish 
amusement to the children who take delight in watching and 
feeding them during the summer season. In the winter both 
lakes are kept in good condition for skating, and this popular 
amusement attracts hundreds of people daily. A large green- 
house is maintained on the grounds, besides a pavillion where 
refreshments are served and a music stand for concert purposes. 

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The high order of the band concerts, which are given every Sun- 
day during- the summer months, are highly appreciated and 
attract immense crowds. The Hanscom park and North 24th 
street motor line goes directly to the park. 

Elmwood Park, containing - 215 acres, lies on the west side of 
the city. By a donation of Mr. Lyman Richardson, Mr. Leopold 
Doll, Mr. John T. Bell, and others, this park, containing- 50 acres 
and located three and one-half miles west of the postoffice, be- 
came a part of the park system in 1890. Considerable money has 
been expended in improving- this park, which is a beautiful piece 
of ground for park purposes, being- partially covered with a 
growth of natural trees, among- which are some very valuable 
elms. A brook of pure spring- water runs throug-h the park, 
furnishing- clear water for several lakes or pools at intervals 
along- the ravine. The immediate surroundings embrace a 
variety of elevations valuable to a park of large proportions and 
when the board was selecting sites for parks, they recognized in 
this little park the nucleus for the main park of the city, and 
therefore the surroundings were acquired by purchase, $135,000 
being paid for an additional 160 acres, enlargiug the park to 
215 acres. 

Fontanelle Park, containing 110 acres and located three and 
one-half miles northwest of the postoffice, was purchased for 
$90,000. Over 6,000 trees have been planted and cared for. but 
as yet little has been done toward the permanent inprovement 
of the park. 

Miller Park. This eighty-acre tract, situated in the extreme 
north part within the cit}- limits, was purchased for $75,000 at 
the same time that the other park purchases were made. It has 
a rolling surface in the center of which is a large depression 
providing a natural place for a lake of about eight acres. The 
building of the roads and surfacing generally has been com- 
pleted, excavation for the lake has been made, dam and spillway 
built and about 5,000 trees planted. 

Riverview Park is situated in the extreme southeast part of 
the city, and in many respects is the most beautiful in its natural 
advantages of the city's parks. After resorting to condemnation 
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is now in possession of the city at a cost of about $79,000. It is 
well covered with a valuable growth of young- timber and is 
fortunate in its topography, comprising - as it does a pleasing 
variety of the smooth and level surface, as well as the rough and 
more broken land so desirable in a park of this nature. At dif- 
ferent points of the more elevated portions of the park a mag- 
nificent view can be had of the Missouri river for miles in either 
direction, which gives the park the significance of its name — 
Riverview. 

Bemis Park came under the control of the park board in 
I889. having been previous^' dedicated by a plat of Bemis Park 
Addition. This park consists principally of low ground follow- 
ing the ravine from 34th to 37th street, with steep hills on either 
side. It contains about 10 acres. 

Jefferson Square is the only piece of ground within the 
boundaries of the city that is left of the original dedication as 
platted in 1854, being one block of ground between 15th and 16th 
streets and Chicago and Cass streets. Frequent attempts have 
been made to divert its use to other purposes, such as school 
grounds, market house, postofhce, city hall. etc.. but it still exists 
as a park. Located as it is, in the center of the city, it is a very 
popular resort during the summer season and is the only one 
accessible to the large number of the laboring class living in 
that vicinity. 

Belt Line Park consists of 3 acres in the western part of the 
city. Little improvement has as yet been made. 

RESIDENCES. 

Omaha is distinctly a city of homes. The resident portion 
is thickly built up with houses, which give to the casual observer 
the impression, that they have been built for homes in the 
fullest sense of the word. The old part of the city lies about 
Capitol Hill, and here are many of the homes of the pioneer 
citizens. To obtain the best bird's-eye view of the finest residences 
in Omaha, let a visitor board a westbound Farnara street motor; 
when the car reaches the crest of the hill, at 36th street, there in 
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fifty thousand dollars. This locality is known as West Farnam, 
and contains some of the finest buildings in the city. South 10th. 
an older street, is lined on both sides.with handsome homes, set 
well back from the street and surrounded by well kept lawns. 
Georgia avenue, on the south side, is for the space of two miles 
evenly built up with moderate priced homes. Being- the direct 
road to South Omaha, it is considered a fine location. On the 
north side, adjacent to the Trans -Mississippi grounds, lies 
Kountze Addition. It bears the same relation to Omaha that 
suburbs do to larger cities, being the business man's home. The 
North 24th street and 16th street motor lines connect it with 
the city. 

MILITARY ORGANIZATIONS. 

Omaha, from its earliest history, has always been an import- 
ant point in the military operations of the west. As the head- 
quarters of the Department of the Platte is the base of supplies 
for the troops in the Indian campaigns, which took place almost 
every summer for a long period of years, Omaha is known the 
world over as a military city. This fact, with the influence of a 
regiment of regular troops stationed just outside the city limits, 
has so imbued the citizens with the martial spirit, that two com- 
panies of the National Guard were formed, and how well they 
have prepared themselves for the duties of the soldier, the record 
of their winnings in their various prize contests will show. 

The Department of the Platte. The United States is divided 
into eight military divisions. That portion of the country occu- 
pied by the states of Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming (except Fort 
Yellowstone, Wyo.,) and portions of Idaho and South Dakota 
form the Department of the Platte, with headquarters at Omaha, 
Brigadier General John J. Coppinger, commanding. This 
department comprises the 8th, 9th and a portion of the 6th 
Regiment of Cavalry, and the 8th, 12th and 22d Regiments of 
Infantry. These regiments are stationed at six forts in different 
portions of this territory. The entire force consists of 211 com- 
missioned officers and 2,640 enlisted men. 

Fort Crook, recently completed at a cost of $800,000, is garri- 
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commanding. This regiment is divided into eight companies, 
and consists of thirty -five officers and 525 enlisted men, and a 
staff corps of two officers and seventeen men. It is located about 
twelve miles south of the city, and is reached 03- the Missouri 
Pacific railroad. There are also good roads for a carriage drive 
to the post, and in pleasant weather many visitors witness the 
daily drill of the soldiers. The 22d Regiment band, one of the 
best in the west, is one of the attractive features for visitors. 

Omaha Guards, Company Q, 2d Regiment. Nebraska 
National Guards. Armory. Eighteenth and Harney streets. 
Organized October 24. 1887, now consisting of forty-eight men: 
H. B. Mulford. captain. Won prizes as follows: 

Interstate drill, Omaha, 1889, 1st National drill, Memphis, 1895, 1st 

prize. Bronze Trophey. prize gatling gun class, $500. 

National drill, Kansas City. 1890, State drill, Lincoln, 1896, 1st prize, 

1st prize in maiden class $1,000. Governor's Cup. 

National dr. 11, Omaha, 1892. 1st _ .... . fT 

prize in gatling sun class. $500. C 9£? e !i tiv ? d SjJ' South 0maha - 

State drill. Lincoln, 1894, 1st prize. 1894 < - d P rlze - *°°- 

Governor's Cup. 

Thurston Rifles, Company L, 1st Regiment. Nebraska 
National Guards. Armory, Seventeenth and Douglas streets. 
Organized September, 1893, now consisting of sixty men: W. J. 
Foy, captain. Won prizes as follows: 

Competitive drill. South Omaha. championship of the United 

189», 1st p-iz", $100. States. 1st prize, $3,000 and Texas 

State drill, Lincoln, 1894. 1st prize. Cup. 2d prize in class B, $500. 

forfeited on technical error and 1st prize, class C. $1,000. Discip- 

given to Omaha Guards. line prize. $300. Best individual 

National drill, Memphis, 1895, drilled soldier. $75. 

High School Cadets, under direction of E. O. C. Ord, of the 
regular army, are divided into four companies, consisting of 
about fifty men each. They are developing into an extremely 
well drilled body of young men. and the progress made in the 
short time since their organization, is a surprise to all conver- 
sant with such matters. 

HOSPITALS. 

The numerous humane institutions which are scattered over 
Omaha, go to show that while its citizens are known as active, 
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time to the art of making- mone}', they have not neglected to 
provide for those less fortunate. Besides the asylums and homes 
of various kinds, there are a number of larg-e and well equipped 
hospitals capable of receiving- and caring- for all who ma) r apply. 
The following- are the most important: 

Creighton Memorial St. Joseph's Hospital was founded in 
1890. The Sisters of Mercy provided the grounds and a building- 
was erected out of a donation by John A. Greig-hton of over 
$200,000. The hospital is manag-ed b}' the Sisters of St. Francis 
and about forty of who, as trained nurses, are in constant 
attendance on the patients. There are seventy-two private 
rooms, besides twenty-five wards, larg-e and small, capable of 
accommodating - more than 300 patients at one time. Aside from 
this there are operating- rooms, dressing- rooms, drug- rooms, and 
private rooms for the officers. There is no restriction as to sex, 
creed or nationality. The hospital is free to those who cannot 
afford to pay, but the income for maintaining- the institution is 
derived from those patients who are able to pay for their care. 
Last year the total number of patients was 1339, of which 562 
discharg-ed their obligations, while 777 were cared for free of 
charge. The hospital is located on the northeast corner of Tenth 
and Castellar streets, and is best reached by the Walnut Hill 
and south Thirteenth street motor line. 

Emmanuel Hospital, 3402 Meredith, was founded in 1890 by 
Rev. K. A. Foglestrom. It is managed by the Emmanuel Dea- 
coness Swedish Association, under the general auspices of the 
Lutheran church. There is room for thirty patients, and all are 
admitted without restrictions, who are in need of careful nursing 
and medical attendance. "While this hospital also is maintained 
by the income received from patients, no one is refused 
admittance on account of povert)-. This hospital is reached by 
the South Omaha and Sherman Avenue line. 

The Presbyterian Hospital, located at Twenty-sixth and 
Marcy streets, was founded eight years ago. The pioneer sup- 
porters included a few charitable workers in Omaha and a small 
institution with less than a dozen beds marked the beginning. 
The demand for a more elaborate hospital have led to the equip- 
ment of the present building, with fift3 r beds, including private 

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wards, and completely appointed operating and dressing 1 rooms. 
A resident physician chosen from the graduates of the Omaha 
Medical Colleg-e, with the assistance of a corps of trained nurses, 
look after the comfort of the patients, and carries out the orders 
of the regular staff of visiting physicians and surgeons. The 
hospital is entirely non-sectarian, and it^ patrons include people 
of every creed. The needs and care of the hospital are looked 
after by a board of trustees, which confers with this view from 
time to time with the medical and surgical staff. No case, except 
that of contagious diseases, i- refused admittance t>> the hospital. 
The location of the building is a quiet one. and the rapid 
development of the institution speaks well for its promoters. 

The Douglas County Hospital ha- a front elevation of 400 
feet and comprises a central building and two wings. It is 
located on tin- County Poor farm at the corner of Fortieth street 
and Poppleton avenue. It is maintained entirely by the county 
and is intended only for the poor. There are wards also for the 
county poor and insane. There is room for about 300 patients, 
and is usually taxed about one-half of it> capacity. 

The Clarkson Memorial Hospital, 171<> Dodge street, was 
founded by a bequest made by Bishop Clarkson, together with 
donations by hi- friends. It was first intended to he exclusively 
a childs hospital, hut adults are now admitted when the rooms 
are not occupied by children. It is under the general supervi- 
sion of the Episcopal church, but patients of all denominations 
are admitted, and while it is known as a private hospital, it 
receives its share of the emergency cases sent by the city. 

The Hethodist Episcopal Hospital and Deaconess Home is 

located at 41 l ) South Twentieth street. It has only thirty-five 
beds and is consequently nearly always taxed to its full capacity. 
It is under the care of a corps of trained nurses, who are doing- 
active and earnest work in relieving sickness and distress. 

The Emma Flower Mission was founded by Mrs. Hoagdand 
in memory of her daughter Emma. Flowers are collected from 
all over the city and are distributed by a committee of ladies 
among the patients in the hospitals and private houses. "When the 
supply is over abundant, they are given to the poor of the city. 

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The State Institute for the Deaf and Dumb is situated in 
the northwestern part of the cit}-. It is supported by direct 
appropriations by the legislature. Its location is one of the most 
sightly about the city. Its buildings are of brick, surrounded by 
a beautiful lawn in the midst of a forest of planted trees. The 
original structure was erected in 1869, the others have been 
added from time to time as the necessities required. The object 
of the institute is to give those children of the state who, b) r 
reason of deafness, cannot be educated in the public schools, an 
education, and the physical and moral development which will 
make them good and self-supporting citizens. The intellectual 
work is carried on in two departments, the manual and the aural- 
oral. In the former by means of the manual alphabet, writing, 
signs and pantomine; the latter by means of writing, speech read- 
ing and action work. An art school and manual training school 
is conducted for the benefit of the students, and many of them 
attain great proficiency. It is one of the most interesting places 
to visit about the city, and visitors are always welcome. 

There are a number of homes of various kinds about the city: 
the most important of which is the Nebraska Home for the Aged, 
at 1422 North Twenty-seventh street, and the St. James Orphan- 
age at Benson. This latter institution, under the charge of the 
Sisters of Mercy, provides a home and school for about 150 
orphans. 

TRANSPORTATION. 

That Omaha is an important railroad point, is shown by the 
fact that 5,000 men resident in the city are directly engaged in rail- 
road work. This city has more than twenty distinct lines of road 
affording direct communication with every city of importance in 
the United States, ^specially is this true of the cities and 
smaller towns of the Trans-Mississippi country. It is this 
magnificent system of railroads radiating to every point of the 
compass that gives to Omaha the commercial supremacy which 
she now enjoys. A glance at the various roads leading out of 
Omaha from all directions will indicate its importance as a rail- 
road center. Leading to the east we have the Chicago, Burling- 
ton & Quincy, the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, the Chicago & 

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Northwestern, the Chicago. Ruck Island & Pacific, and the 
Chicago, St Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha. Leading- to the north 
and northwest we have the Sioux City vS: Pacific, the Chicago & 
Northwestern, and the Fremont. Elkhorn & Missouri Valley. 
Leading to the west and northwest we have the Burlington & 
Missouri River the Union Pacific: the Fremont, Elkhorn & Mis- 
souri Valley, the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, and the Chicago 
& Northwestern. Leading* to the south and southwest we have 
the Burlington & Missouri River, the Union Pacific, the Chicago, 
Rock Island and Pacific, the Kansas City, St. Joseph & Council 
Bluff*, the Missouri Pacific. Leading t<> the southeast we have 
the Chicago, Burlington St Quiucy, the Wabash, and the Kansas 
City. St. Joseph & Council Bluffs. 

Omaha is situated 200 mile* nearer the Pacific Coast than 
any other city of importance on the Missouri river, thus insuring 
better rate* and prompter service. The headquarters and chief 
officials of the Union Pacific and other large trunk line* are 
located here, while it i* the division headquarters of most of the 

balance. Several of the Large eastern and southern road* are 

contemplating building into Omaha. That two at Least will do 
so is an assured fact, while the road* to the west are con- 
stantly building feeder* and thus opening up new territory to 
the wholesale and manufacturing interests of Omaha As the 
railroads now here have been built in response to the demands 
of the trade which center* at this city, so will other roads be 
built, as this trade increases with the growth of the county. 

TICKET OFFICES. 

Aside from the general ticket offices at the passenger sta- 
tions, the following roads maintain local office*, where tickets 
are sold over their own lines and all outside connections: 



Burlington & Missouri River In 
Nebraska, N. W. corner LSthand 
Parnam. 

Chicago & Northwestern, B. W. 
corner 141 b and Parnam. 

Chicago, Burlington & Qulncy, N. 
W. corner 15th and Parnam. 

Chicago, Book Island & Pacific, s. 
B. corner 14th and Parnam. 

Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, 
i")04 Parnam. 

Fren ont, Elkhorn & Missouri Val- 
ley, S. W. comer 14th and Parnam. 



lty, 

Bluffs, N. W. corner 15th and 

Parnam. 
Missouri Pacific, N. E. corner 13th 

and Parnam. 
Omaha & St. Louis. 1415 Farnam. 
Omaha. Kansas City & Eastern, 

I4ir> Parnam. 
Sioux (ity cV Pacific, S. W. corner 

14th ana Farnam 
Union Pacific, N. W. corner 13th 

and Farnam. 
Wabash. 1415 Farnam. 



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PASSENGER STATIONS. 



Burlington & Missouri River in 

Nebraska, 10th and Mason. 
Chicago & Northwestern, 10th and 

Mason. 
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, 10th 

and Mason. 
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, 

10th and Mason. 
Chicago, St. Paul. Minneapolis & 

Omaha, 15th and Webster. 
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, 

10th and Mason. 



Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Val- 
ley, 15th and Webster. 

Kansas City, St. Joseph & Council 
Bluffs, 10th and Mason. 

Missouri Pacific, 15th and Webster 

Omaha & St. Louis. 10th and Mason. 

Omaha, Kansas City & Eastern, 
10th and Mason. 

Sioux City & Pacific, 15th and Web- 
ster. 

Union Pacific. 10th and Mason. 

Wabash, 10th and Mason. 



The Omaha Belt Line runs suburban trains around, the out- 
skirts of the city, stopping- at the following- stations: The dist- 
ance is measured by rail from the court house. 



Oak Chatham, 3 miles, 22d and Boyd 
Druid Hill, W% miles, 35th and 

Sprague. 
Lake St., 4Y 2 miles, 44th and Lake. 
Walnut Hill, 5 miles, 40th and 

Nicholas. 
West Side Junction, 6 miles. 42nd 

and Farnam. 



West Side, 6% miles, 48th and Lea- 
venworth. 

Lawn, or West Lawn, 8 l / 2 miles, 
50th and Center. 

Seymour Park, 11% miles. 

Deerfieid, 12% miles, on Belt line & 
Burlington R. R. 

Portal, 15 miles. Belt Line & U. P 



EXPRESS COMPANIES. 

The headquarters of the Pacific Express Company are located 
in Omaha and the prcsiden secretary, g-eneral manager and 
auditor are residents of the cit}-. This company has a capital of 
$6,000,000 and controls 24.000 miles of road. Their new five story 
building, erected at a cost of $115,000. stands on the corner of 
14th and Harne}-. They employ 123 men in this city and their 
monthly pay-roll amounts to over $10,000. 

This city is also headquarters for the western division of the 
Adams Express Co . and headquarters for the Iowa and Nebraska 
division of the American Express Co. The various express 
companies have offices as follows : 



Adams 1307 Farnam 

American 1305 Farnam 

Southern 1307 Farnam 



Pacific 14th and Harnev 

United States.. 14th & Harnev 
Wells Far«-o. ..114 So. 15th st. 



FREIGHT DEPOTS. 



Burlington & Missouri River in 

Nebraska, 8th and Howard. 
Chicago & Northwestern, 9th and 

Jones. 
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, 8th 

and Howard. 
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific. 9th 

and Jones. 
Chicago, St. Paul. Minneapolis & 

Omaha, 14th and Webster. 
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, 9th 

and Jones. 



Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Val- 
ley, 14th and Webster. 

Kansas City, St. Joseph & Council 
Bluffs, 8tn and Howard. 

Missouri Pacific, 15th aud Nicholas. 

Omaha & St. Louis, 9th and Jones. 

Omaha, Kansas Ciry & Eastern, 9th 
and Jones. 

Sioux City & Pacific, 14th and Web- 
ster. 

Union Pacific, 9th and Jones. 

Wabash, 9th and Jones. 



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VIADUCTS AND BRIDGES. 

Three magnificent steel bridges span the Missouri river at 
Omaha, affording- ample facilities for freight and passenger 
transportation to Council Bluffs and points beyond. The bridge 
of the Union Pacific Railway Company was completed in 1887 at 
a cost of over a million dollars. It is 1750 feet in length, 54 feet 
wide and has 10 spans. The bridge is 140 feet in height, 74 feet 
being below the level of low water. It will stand a pressure of 
over four tons to the square foot. It accommodates the greater 
part of the freight and passenger trains that cross the river at 
this point. 

The same year a new wagon and street railway bridge was 
built by the Council Bluffs & Omaha Railway and Bridge Co. 
Its foundation consists of nine huge iron C3'linders sunk to bed- 
rock and filled with concrete cement. This bridge with its ap- 
proaches is nearly a mile in length. 33 feet in width and 54 feet 
above high water. It accommodates the wagon traffic and street 
car service between Omaha and Council Bluffs. 

A new bridge connecting Council Bluffs with East Omaha 
was completed in 1893 by the Omaha Bridge & Terminal Railroad 
Company at a cost of over a million dollars. It was intended as 
a quick outlet to the east for the manufacturing industries of 
East Omaha, and to facilitate the interchange of freight by the 
railroads coming into the city from the north with eastern roads. 
The bridge is intended for street car service as well as railroads 
and accommodates wagon traffic and foot passengers. As it is 
a low bridge, being only 10 feet above high water, and as it was 
necessary to provide for the passage of steamers on the river, it 
was built with a draw-span 521 feet in length. This is the long- 
est draw-span in the world. 

All the railroads which run through the central part of the 
city are laid in the ravine which divides the northern and south- 
ern portions of the city in the eastern part. To eliminate the 
danger of railroad crossings and for the better accommodation 
of wagon and street car traffic, three large viaducts were built 
within a few blocks of each other. The Tenth street viaduct is 
probably the widest and most substantial in the country. It 
consists of a paved roadway on a steel frame 60 feet in width, 
with a stone walk 10 feet in width on either side This via- 

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duct accommodates several street car lines and is the main hack 
and carriag-e drive to the Union depot. It was built under the 
direction of the Union Depot Company at a cost of $250,000. 

The next viaduct is one block west of 11th street. 

The 16th street viaduct is one of the main thoroug-hfares of 
the city and is crossed by the Sherman avenue and South Omaha 
street car lines. 

HOTELS AND BOARDING HOUSES. 



Omaha is well supplied with a number of hotels of the first 
class, with many others which furnish g-ood accommodations at 
a very moderate cost. The city is well prepared to entertain all 
visitors, however great the emergency, as the hotel facilities of 
Council Bluffs and South Omaha can be readily drawn upon, 
being but a few minutes' ride awaj-. The combined capacity of 
the hotels of the three cities is sufficient to care for about 50,000 
guests. Aside from the hotels there is a vast number of board- 
ing houses and private rooms with restaurants of all grades, so 
that it is safe to say, that during the exposition at least 100.000 
visitors can be easily and comfortably cared for at one time. 
Other hotels are in contemplation and several large buildings 
will be remodeled for hotel purposes, so that it is probable that 
this estimate can be considerably increased. The prices range 
from 50 cents and $1,00 to $4.00 and $5.00 per day, with the 
majority at $1.00 and $2.00 per day. The following is an alpha- 
betical list af the principal hotels of the city: 



Aetna House (European), 102 No. 

1 clth st. Rates, 25c to $1 .00. 
Arcade Hotel {American), 1213-19 

Douglas. Rates, $2.00. 
Arlington Hotel (American). 113 N. 

13th st. Rates, $1 0C to $1.50. 
Brunswick Hotel (American), 519 S. 

16th st. Rates, SI 50 to $2.50. 
Cambridge Hotel (European), 202 N. 

13th st. Rates, 25c and up. 
City Hotel (European), 324 S. 10th 

st. Rates, Sl. 00 to $1.50. 
Colonade Ho el (American), 1423 

Jackson. Rates, $1. 50 to $2.50. 
Hodge European Hotel (European), 

107 S. 13th st. Rates, 50c to $1.00. 
Doian House (American), 422 S. 

lbth st. Rates, $1.00. 
Drexel Hotel (American), 620 N. 

16th st. Rates, $2.00. 
European Hotel (European), 424 S. 

10th st. Rates, $1.00. 



Goos Hotel (American), 1310 Cass. 
Rates, sl.00 to $1.50. 

Henderson Hotel (American), 1519 
Howard. Rates, $1.U) to $1.50. 

Henshaw's European Hotel (Euro- 
pean), 1509 Farnam. Rates $1.00 
to $2.00. 

Hotel Barker (American), 619 S. 
13th st. Rates, $1.50 to $2.00. 

Hotel Dellone (American and Euro- 
pean), 14th and Capitol avenue. 
Rates. $1.00, $2 50 to $4.00. 

Hotel Karbach (European), 420 S. 
15th st. Rates, 50c to $1.00. 

Klondyke Hotel (American and 
European), 619 N. 16tb st. Rates, 
50c to $1.00. 

Lange Hotel (American), 604 S. 13th 
st. Rates, $1.00. 

Madison. The (American), 2102 Chi- 
cago. Rates, $2.00. 



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Mercer Hotel (American), 12th and 
Howard. Rates, $2.00 to $3.00. - 

Merchant's Hotel, (American), 1508- 
1510 Farnam. Rates, $2.00 to $3.00. 

Merriam, The (American), 106 S. 
25th st. Rates, $1.50 to $3 00. 

Metropolitan Hotel (American), 
1124 Douglas. Rates, $1.50. 

Midland Hotel (American), 319 N. 
16th st. Rates, $1.50 to $2.00. 

Millard Hotel (American aud Euro- 
pean), 13th and Doug-las. Rates, 
American, $2.50 to $5.00, European 
$1.00 and up. 

Murray Hotel (American), 314 S. 
14th st. Rates, $2.50 to $3.50. 

Oxford Hotel (Europ< an), 306 S. 
11th st. Rates, 50c to $1.50. 

Pacific Hotel (American), 609 Pa- 
cific. Rates, $1.00. 

Paxton Hotel (American), 1401-1415 
Farnam . Rates, $2.50 to $5 . 00. 



People's Hotel (American), 2?d and 
Locust, East Omaha. Rates, $1.00. 

Rudd Hotel (American), lul7 N. 
16th st. Rates, $1.00. 

Schlitz Hotel (European), 316 S. 
16th st. Rates, 75c to $2.00. 

Shriner Hotei (American), 324 S. 
26th st. Rates, $1 .no to $1 50. 

State Hotel (European), 1312 Do g- 
las. Rates. 25c and up. 

Union Depot Hotel (American*, 
1021 Mas m. Rates, $1 25 to $1.50. 

Utopia, The (American), 1721 Daven- 
port. Rates, $1.25. 

Vendome Hotel (American), 414-416 
S. 13th st. Rates, $1.25. 

Victoria Hotel (American), 13 10 
Dodge. Rates. $1.00 to $1.50. 

Vienna Hotel (European), 1015 Far- 
nam. Rates, 75c to $1.00. 

Windsor Hotel (American), 10th 
and J ackson. Rates, $2.00. 



CHURCHES. 



The total number of church buildings in Omaha is 107. On 
account of the multiplicity of congregations the tendency of the 
architecture is toward buildings that will accommodate small 
audiences. As compared with older cities the churches here are 
comparatively new and their architecture is consequently of a 
more modern style. The design of the congregations has been 
the comfort of the worshippers and the cultivation of the devo- 
tional feeling within rather than to arrive at an Imposing 
exterior. The prevailing type of architecture is a one-storied 
church, with the auditorium arranged after the amphi-theater 
Among the earliest pioneers of Omaha were ministers of the 
gospel, and their number has gone on increasing with the growtr. 
of the city until now more than one hundred pulpits are filled 
with able and infiuental men Nearly all of the leading denomi- 
nations are well represented here, as the following directory will 
show: 



BAPTIST. 



Beth-Eden, 819 S. 29th ave. 
Beth- Eden Mission, 502 S. 18th st. 
Calvary, 26th and Seward, Rev. 

Thos. Anderson, pastor. 
Calvary Mission, 1715 N. 34th St.. 

Rev. Thos. Anderson, pastor. 
First Baptist, 35th and Farnam, 

Rev. T. L. Kelman, pastor. 
Grace, 10th and Arbor, Rev. J. O. 

Staples, pastor. 
Immanuel, 24th and Binney. 



Olivet, 38th and Grand ave. 

Zion, 2215 Grant, Rev. T. T. Wards, 

pastor. 
German Baptist, 26ti and Seward, 

Rev. A. Bolter, pastor. 
Swedish, 618 N. 18th St., Rev. P. 

Swartz, pa -tor. 
First Baptist, Danish, 27ih and 

Seward. 
Mount Pisgah, 1123 Jackson. Rev. 

Robt. Jauuary, pastor. 



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CHRISTIAN. 

First, 20th and Capitol ave.. Rev. J. M. Vawter, pastor. 

Grant Street. 26th and Grant, Rev. u. E. Taylor, pastor. 

Walnut Hill, 4420 Nicholas, Rev. Jos. Nicholas, pastor. 

CONGREGATIONAL. 



Cherry Hill, 5011 N. 42d St., Rev. L. 

S. Hand, pastor. 
First. 19th and Davenport, Rev. F. 

A. Warfield, pastor. 
German, llth and Center, Rev. F. 

H. W. Bruechert. pastor. 
Hillside, 30th and Ohio, Rev. Jacob 

Flook, pastor. 
Park Vale Chapel, 2944 Castellar. 



Pilgrim Chapel, 102 N. 41st St., Rev. 

F. O. Jackson, pastor. 
Plymouth. 20th and Spencer, Rev. 

H. S. Macayeal, pastor. 
St. Marys Ave., 27th and St Mary's 

ave,, Kev. S. W. Butler, pastor. 
Saratoga, 25th and Ames, Rev. L. 

S. Hand, pastor. 



EPISCOPAL. 



Episcopal Rooms, Diocese of Neb., 
24ArlingtouBlk,Rt.Rev.G.Worth- 
ington. S. T D., L L. D., bishop; 
Rev. Canon W.T Whitmarsh, sec. 

All Saints. 25th and Half Howard, 
Rev. T. J. Mackay, rector. 

Church of the Good Shepard, 20th 
and Ohio, Rev. G. S. Walk, rector. 

St. Andrew, 4042 Charles, Associate 
Mission. 

St. Augustine, 33d and Francis, As- 
sociate Mission. 



St. Barnabas, 519 N. 19th, Rev. John 

Williams, rector. 
St. John. 1T06 N. 26th st. 
St. Mai bias. 1423 S. 10th. Rev. L. F. 

Potter, priest in charge. 
St= Paul, 3211 California, Associate 

Mission. 
St. Philips (Colored), 1125 N. 21st st. 
Trinity Cathedral, 18th and Capitol 

ave.. Very Rev ; Campbell Fair, 

D. D., dean. 



EVANGELICAL. 



Emanuel, 2602 Marcy, Rev. G. J. 

Streicher. pastor. 
Free, 12th and Dorcas, Rev. F. II. 

\V. Bruechert, pastor. 



Swedish Mission, 2222 Davenport. 

Rev. F. O. Hultman. pastor. 
Zion, German, 2622 tprague, Rev. 

Ernest Mehl, pastor. 



JEWISH. 



Congregation B'nai Israel, 1526 P. 

13th st., Rev. Abraham Bran&oru, 

rabbi. 
Congregation B'nai Israel, 1730 S. 

13th St., Rev. Harry Grodzinsky, 

rabbi. 



Temple Israel, 2332 Harney, Rev, 

Leo. M. b'ranklin, rabbi. 
Russian Israelite Synagogue. 1212 

Capitol ave., Rev. M. A. Zimman. 

rabbi. 



LUTHERAN. 



Grace, 1320 S. 26th, Rev. Luther M. 
uuhns, pastor. 

Kountze Memorial, 16th and Har- 
ney, Rev. A. J. Turkle, pastor. 

St. Marks, 21s1 and Burdette, Rev. 
L. Groh, pastor. 

St. Matthew's Mission, 14th and 
Center, Kev. A. .1. Turkle, pastor. 

First German, 1005 S. 20th St., Rev. 
E J. Frese. pastor. 

St. Pauls. German, 28th and Par- 
ker, Rev. J. D. s. Her, pastor. 

Deaconess, 34th and Meredith ave . 
Rev. E. A. Foglestrom, pastor. 



Emmanuel, Swedish, 19th and Cass. 
Rev. P. J. Sward. 1>. !>., pastor. 

Emmanuel Church Mis-ion, Swed- 
ish, 36th and Charles, Rev. P. J. 
Sward, D. D., pastor. 

Salem, Swedish, 321 I S. 23d St., Rev. 
C. E. Living, pastor. 

Norwegian and Danish, 1316 N. 
86th st., Rev. J. N. Anderson, 
pastor. 

Danish, 819 S. 22d, Rev. I.e. Paul- 
sen, pastor. 

Pella. Danish. 2215 N. 86th St., Kev. 
C. B. Christiansen, pastor. 



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METHODIST EPISCOPAL. 



Bishop W. Nindi, D. D., L. L. D., 
presiding bishop. 

Rev. John B. Maxfleld, D. D., pre- 
siding elder, Omaha district. 

First Church, 20th and Davenport, 
Rev. John McQuoid, D.D., pastor. 

Hanscom Park, 29th and Wool- 
worth ave., Rev. F. M. Sisson, 
pastor. 

Monmouth Park, 34th and Lari- 
more, Rev. Frank Bross, pastor. 

Seward Street, 22d and Seward, 
Rev. J. W. Robinson, D. D., 
pastor. 

Southwest, 52d and Hickory, Rev. 
R. M. Henderson, pastor. 



South Tenth St., 10th and Pierce, 
Rev. Geo. A. Luce, pastor. 

Trinity, 21st and LSinney, Rev. F. 
H. Sanderson, D. D., pastor. 

Walnut Hill, 41st and Charles, Rev. 
C. N. Dawson, pastor. 

West Omaha, 37th and Marcy, Rev. 
J as. Hay nes, pastor. 

German, 11th and Center, Rev. O. 
Kriege, pastor. 

Swedish, 18th and Cass, Rev. C. O. 
Karlson, pastor. 

Danish and Norwegian, Rev. Ras- 
mus Wilhelmensen, pastor. 

African. 18th and Webster, Rev. 
S. C. C. Owens, pastor, 



PRSEBYTERIAN. 



Ambler Place, 42d and Marinda. 
Bedford Place, 3028 Lalk, Rev. 

Knox Boude, pastor. 
Castellar St., 16th and Castellar, 

Rev. J. M. Wilson, pastor. 
Clifton Hill, 4338 Grant, Rev. J. I). 

Kerr, pastor. 
First, 17th and Dodge. 
Grace Mission, 507 William. 
Knox, 19th and Ohio. 



Lowe Ave., 40th and Nicholas, Rev. 

T. S. Hawiey, pastor. 
Ontario St., 1820 Ontario. 
Second, 24th and Nicho.as, Rev. S. 

M. Ware, pastor. 
Southwest, 20th and Leavenworth. 
Westminster, 29th and Mason. 
Bohemian, 1256 S. 15th st. 
First, German, 813 N. 18th, Rev. 

Daniel Grieder, pastor. 



ROMAN CATHOLIC. 



St. Philomena's Cathedral, 412 S. 

9th st.. Very Rev. W. Kelly, Rev. 

H. J. McDevitt, D. D., rector. 
St. Cecilia, 42d and Hamilton, Rev. 

J. J. O'Callaghan. 
Church of tbe Imm. Cone. B. V. M., 

24th and Bancroft, Rev. Thto- 

bald Kalamaja, O. S. F. 
Holy Family Church, 1718 Izard, 

Rev. John Fitzpatrick. 
Sacred Heart. 2212 Binney, Rev. P. 

J. Judge, Rev. J. McNamara. 
St. John's, 25th and < alifornia, 

Rev. J. H. Meuffels, S. J., Rev. H. 



Peters, S. J., Rev. M. M. Brons- 

geest, S. J. 
St. Joseph, 16th and Center, Rev. 

M. Bankholt, O. S. F., Rev. 

A. Roeckel, S. F. 
St. Mary Magdalene, 1618 Douglas, 

Rev. G. J. Glauber. 
St. Patrick, 1404 Castellar, Rev. J. 

T. Smith. 
St. Peter, 28th and Leavenworth, 

Rev. J. E. English, Rev. W. Mc- 
Namara. 
St. Wenceslaus, 1430 S. 13th St., Rev. 

J. Vranek. 



UNITED PRESBYTERIAN. 

Central, 24th and Dodge, Rev. Alexander Gilchrist, pastor. 

First United Presbyterian, 21st and tmmett streets. 

Park Ave., 29th and Jackson, Rev. Edgar McDill, pastor. 

MISCELLANEOUS. 



American Volunteers, 114 S. 13th st. 
Fral Swings Armen, 803 N. 201 h st. 
Free Methodist, 1739 S. 11th st., 

Rev, W. M. Adams, pastor 
First Church of Christ, Scientist, 

2653 St. Mary's ave., Al Fieddie 

DeLong, reader. 
First Universalist, 19th and Lath- 

rop. 
People's, 612 N. 18th st., Rev. C. W. 

Savidge, pastor. 



Reorganized Church of Jesus 

Christ, Latter Day Saints, 1818 N. 

21st, Rev. F. A. Smith, pastor. 
St. Mary's, Greek, 9th and Howard, 

Rev. Elias Abond, pastor. 
Salvation Army, 1421 N. T4th st. 
Seventh Day Adventists,979 N.25th 

street. 
Unitarian Unity, 17th and Cass, 

Rev Newton M. Mann, minister. 



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CEMETERIES. 

Ample ground, desirably located, has been devoted to the 
various cemeteries about Omaha. The following- comprise the 
list: 

Forest Lawn — North of Fort Omaha ; office 222 South 17th 
street. 

Prospect Hill— Parker street. 

Holy Sepulchre — Leavenworth and 48th streets. 

The Bohemian— 54th and Center streets. 

German Catholic— 24th street, south of city. 

Mount Hope— Military avenue. 

Pleasant Hill-42d and Redick. 

Russian Israelite— 5109 North 24th street. 

Springwell Danish— Redman avenue, west of city. 

BLOCKS AND BUILDINGS. 

The necessity of being in the business center for the proper 
transaction of business and the extremely high prices of real 
estate in that favored quarter are responsible for the "office 
building. " Under the old common law principle that real estate 
proprietorship extended downward in a gradually diminishing 
area until it reached a point at the center of the earth and up- 
ward in a gradually increasing area into illimitable space, pos- 
session is being taken by some of the modern builders. The 
foundation is begun many feet below the surface and is built up 
literally house upon house until the owner thinks he has solved 
the problem of how to make land worth $150,000 pay interest, 
running expenses and also leave a profit. 

To illustrate the immensity of one of these structures we take 
the Bee building as a model. While not the tallest the Bee 
building is probably the largest office building in Omaha, and at 
the time of its erection in 1889 was the largest newspaper build- 
ing in the world It was built at a total cost of $500,000, includ- 
ing machinery and electric light plant. L,ike many modern 
office buildings, it is built in the form of a hollow square sur- 
rounding a central court. The court starts from the ground 
floor at the street level and rises to the height of 120 feet. It is 

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covered at the top with a clear ground glass skylight, supported 
by graceful wrought iron trusses. The roof weighs 375 tons, and 
paved as it is with vitrified brick embedded in Portland cement, 
would make a safe driveway for a score of loaded drays. 

The building has a ground dimension of 17.424 square feet. 
There are 465 windows in the outside walls of the building. In 
the east and south front there are 140,000 pressed brick and about 
1,000,000 of other kinds in the building and 18,000 feet of tiling. 
There are 850 tons of structural iron, 24 tons of sash weights, 148 
tons of tiling and 1005 tons of granite used in the construction, 
while 65,000 vitrified brick were required to cover the roof and 
150 barrels of Portland cement were required to lay them in. 
About 15 miles of pipe are laid in the structure, required b3^ the 
drainage system. There are 187 offices and rooms in the building, 
the largest of which is 89x44 feet and the smallest 8x15. About 
500 people are regularly engaged in their various avocations in 
this one quarter of a block and are visited by thousands of peo- 
ple daily. Owing to hydraulic elevator service the top floors 
are as valuable for rental purposes as the lower. The following 
is a list of the principal blocks and buildings of the city : 



Arlington block. 1511 Dodge st. 

Barker block, 306 So, 15th St. 

Bee building. 1706 Farnara st. 

Benson block, 321 So. 15th st, 

Board of Trade building, 1601 Far- 
nam st. 

Boston Store block, N. W. corner 
16th and Douglas st. 

Boyd's Theatre building, 1619 Har- 
ney st. 

Bressler block, N. E. corner 17th 
and Douglas st. 

Brown J. J. block, 203 S 16th st. 

Bushman block, N. E. corner 16th 
and Uouglas st. 

Callahan block, 313 N- 15th st. 

Chamber of Commerce, 1601 Far- 
nam st. 

City Hall, N. E. corner 18th and 
Farnam st. 

Coliseum, 20th st., near Spencer. 

Commercial National Bank build- 
ing, 1602 Farnam sr. 

Continental block, 1424 Douglas st. 

County Court House, S, W. comer 
17th.and Farnam st. 

Creighton block, 114 So. 15th st. 

Crounse block, 119 N. 16th st. 

Custom House, S. W. corner 15th 
and Dodge st. 

Custom House (new), N. W. corner 
16th and Dodge st. 



Davidge building, 1802 Farnam st. 

Douglas block, 105 S 16th st. 

First National Bank building, 1221 

Farnam st. 
Freuzer block, S. E. corner 15th and 

Dodge st. 
Granite block, 315 S. 15th St. 
Hill block. 212 So. 15th st. 
Karbaeh block. 209 S. 15th st. 
McCague building, N. W. corner 

15th and Dodge st. 
Merchants National Bank building, 

1222 Farnam st. 
Nebraska National Bank building, 

1202 Farnam st. 
New York Life building, 1616 Far- 
nam St. 
Omaha National Bank building, 

210 So. 13th st. 
Patterson buildine - . 1623 Farnam st. 
Paxton block, 21? So. 16th st. 
Postoffice. S. VV. coiner 15th and 

Dodge st. 
Ramge building, 405 ^o. 15th St. 
Sheeley buih-ing, 419 So 15th st. 
U. S. National Bank building, 1201 

Farnam st. 
Ware block, S. E. corner 15th and 

Farnam St. 
Withnell block, 321 So. 15th st, 
Y. M. C. A. building, S. W. corner 

16th and Douglas st. 



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PUBLIC HALLS. 



The city is well provided with the necessary halls to meet 
the requirements of the various Lodges and societies, political 
and social organizations and various other uses for which these 
places are required. 

The Coliseum, built on the occasion of Patti's singing in 
Omaha, is the largest and will accommodate from 10,000 to 12,000 
people. It was here that the People's party convention was held 
in 1892. It has been used since for state conventions, political 
speaking and for the notable balls of the Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben. 
The following i.-< a list of the principal public hall> of the city : 



A. O. I'. W. ball. 1088 Farnam. 
AJc-Sar-Ben Oastli ..." No. 20th 
Armorv, 171 1 Capitol u « e. 
I .-rural hall, 107 Bo. nth Bt. 
Coliseum, 2226 No.aOtb Bt. 
i ■ lemopolitan ball, l 25 Bo. 18th st 
Creighton hall, 151] Han - \ . 
Erfling hall, 2614 Sherman ave. 
Forest ball, 1221 Bo Bi h si. 
forester's ba l. 1618 Douglas. 
Fuller'.-, hall. 1402 Douglas. 

Qermania hull, 181 1 Harney. 
Goodrich hall. 84th aud Paul. 
Grand Army ball, llfi No. 16th. 
Elartman's ball, 108 Bo. 1 11 b Bt. 
I. O. O. F. hall, 1402 Dodge. 
Knights of Labor hall. HSBo. 14th. 
Knights of Pythias hail, 1181 No. 

:.'lt h Bt. 

Knights of the Golden Eagle hall. 

1405 i'' 
Labor Temple, 17th and Douglas. 

Masonic hull, 1608 Capitol ave. 



>l a raihim hall. Cuming and 25tb ave 
Myrtle hall, Continental Blook. 
Natatorium hail. 13134 Howard 
Odd Fellows hail. 102No. inh Bt. 
odd Fellows Temple, 110 No. i 1th, 
Omaha Guards Armor; L8K I lai 

ney Bt 
Order of the World hall, 162 I] • 

nam. 
Orpheua hall. 1313 Howard. 

l'\ ihian hall. 1516 Farnain. 

Bed M«ns hall. 1683 Farnam. 

Boyal Arcanum hall, 1314 Douglas. 

Salvation a 11113- Barracks, 1709 
Davenport. 

Bander's hall. 8402- 1 Cuming. 

Scbroeder's hall. 8401 Cuming. 

South side Turner hall. 1708 Vin- 
ton. 

Thurston Rifles Armory, 17th and 

Douglas. 
Turner hall. 1818 Harney. 
Washington hall. 408 so. 18th. 



STREET RAILWAYS. 

The street railway system <>t Omaha thoroughly meets the 

requirements of the public. The more thickly settled portions 
have been well covered for years and extensions are made from 
time to time to keep pace with the growth of the city. The last 
horse and cable line gave place a couple of years ago to the 
electric car and the whole system is now operated entirely by 
electricity. All lines, with the exception of a few suburban 
branches, are controlled by the Omaha Street Railway Co., which 
is officered as follows : 

Frank Murphy, president ; Guy C. Barton, vice president ; 
W. W. Marsh, treasurer ; D. H. Goodrich, secretary ; W. A. 
Smith, general manager ; F. A Tucker, general superintendent; 

This company has a capital stock of $5,000,000. The general 
offices are at the corner of 20th and Harney streets. The entire 

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system, including- suburban and the Council Bluffs lines, has a 
track mileage of 126^ miles. The total number of cars is 445. 
and bet-ween 500 and 600 men are constantly emploj^ed. The fare 
in all cases is 5 cents, with the exception of the Council Bluffs 
line, to which 5 cents is added for bridge toll. The system of 
transfers is thorough, making it possible to go from most points 
in the cit}- to any other for one fare. This is the case in all con- 
nections in going to and from the public parks and railwa} r sta- 
tions. The following is a list of the routes and transfers of the 
various lines in the cit}- : 

Dodge and North 20th Street Line. 

Koute: From Lake south on 20th to Dodge, east on I lodge to 10th, south 
on 10th to Pacific. Transfers at 10th and Pierce to Harney line going east. 
At 13th street going east to 13th line going souih. At 13th street going west 
to Walnut Hill line going north or south. At 14th street going west to Sher- 
man Avenue and South Omaha line going north or south. At 16th street 
going west to Park and 24th street line going north or south. At 20th and 
Dodge going south to Harney line south or west. At 20th and Dodge going 
north to Harney line west. At 20th and Cuming to Walnut Hill line west. 
At 20th and Cuming going north to Park and 24th street line west. At 20th 
and Lake streets to Lake street line going west. 

Hatiscom Park and North 24th Street Line. 

Route: From Sprague south on 24th to Cuming, east on Cuming to 16th, 
south on 16th to Leavenworth, west on Leavenworth to 29th Ave, south on 29th 
Ave. to Hickory, east on Hickory to 29th, south on 29th to Dupont, west branch 
from 29th Ave. west on Pacific to 32nd. south on 32nd to Center. Transfers at 
24th and Cuming going south to Walnut Hill line going east or west, at 24th 
and Cuming going north to Walnut Hill line going west, at 20th and Cuming 
going east to Dodge street line going south. At 16th and Dodf*e to Dodge line 
going east. At 16th and Farnam to Farnam line going west. At Leaven- 
worth and Park Avenue to Leavenworth line going west. At Pacific street 
going west or south. At 16th and Harney streets going north to Harney line 
going east or west. At 24th and Lake streets going west on Lake street. At 
24th and Ames Avenue on Ames Avenue going west. At 16th and Leaven- 
worth going north to South Omaha and Sherman Avenue line going north or 
south. 

The Sherman Avenue and South Omaha Line. 

Route: From 36th east on Ames to Commercial, southeast on Commer- 
cial to Sherman Avenue, south on Sherman Avenue to Clark, west on Clark 
to 17th. south on 17th to Cass, east on Cass to 14th. south on 14th to Howard, 
west on Howard to 16th, south on 16th to Vinton, west on Vinton to 24th, 
south on 24th to South Omaha. Transfers at 24th and Ames Avenue east to 
i'ark and 24th street line going south. At Locust street to East Omaha line. 
At Dodge and 14th street to Dodge street line going east. At 14th and Harney 
streets to Harney line going east. At 24th and N streets to L street line going 
south. At 24th and N streets to Albright line going south. At 16th and 
Leavenworth to Park Avenue and 24th street line going west. 

The Farnam and 41st Street Line. 

Route: From William north on 10th to Farnam, west on Farnam to 41st. 
Transfers at 16th street goin<r east to Park Avenue and 24th street line going 
north or south. At 20th street going east to Harney line going north. At 
loth and Pierce to Harney line going north or east. Also to Dodge street 
line going north. At 13th street going east to Walnut Hill and south 13th 
streei line going south. 

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Hartley and West Dodge Street Line. 



Bodts: From California south on 25th to Dodge, fast on Dodge to 20th, 
.south on 2Uth to Harney, easl on Harney t.» 10th, Bout h on 10th to Pacific, east 
on Pacific to 6th. Transfers at 14th 6tree1 going west to Sherman Avenue on 
South Omaha line n>> ng north or south. At 20th and Dodge poing west t<> 
Dodge street Jim- going north. At 10th and Pierce to Farnam street line 
going north or south. At 20th and Dodge going east to Dodgestreet line 
going east or north. At 20th and Farnam streets going south to i amain 
street line going west. At 16th to Park Avenue and 24th street line going 
.south. At nuh and Pierce going aorth to Dodge street lineg Ing north. 

Kalnut Hill and South l.Uh Street Line. 

Route: From i:.t h southeast on Military Avenue to Hamilton, east on 
Hamilton to 40th, south on Win to Cuming, east on Cuming to 16th, south on 
it.i h to Webster, easl on Webstei t* th on 13th toB. Transfers al 84th 

and Cuming going easl to Park and 24th st reet line going aorth and east. At 
18th and Dodge going south to Dodge street line going east At 13th and 
Farnam going north to Farnam stre< i line going west. At 80th and Cuming 
going east to Dodge street line aorth and south. At 13th and Dodge going 
aorth to Dodge street Line going west. Ai 15th street to Benson line At 
84th and Cuming going west to Park and 34th st reel line l'imul' aorth. 

Lake street 1 inc. 

Koi'tk: From 80th west on Lake i>> 30th street, aorth on 30th to Bristol. 
Transfers al 84th and Lake i" tdanscom Park line north or south. At 80th 
and Lake t«> Dodge streel line going south. 

Lease n north Street Line. 

Route: From '-".Mh Avenue west on Leavenworth to 18th, and extends 
from 48th west and Boutfa to the State Fair Grounds. This extension Is In use 
only when there is some attraction al the Fair Grounds. Transfers al 89th 
Avenue to Hanscom Park line, east or smith. 

BeUSOIl Line. 

Koi'ii: : From 4.">th northwest and west on Military Avenue to Benson. 
Transfers to Walnut Hill line al 15th and Military Avenue. 

Omaha and Council Blttffs Line. 

Route: From Bridge west on Douglas to 14th, south on 14th to Howard, 
easl "ii Howard in i:;i li. north -ai 12th o> Douglas, «:i~-i on Douglas to Council 
Bluffs. 

Dundee Line. 

ion- 1 1.: From Farnam north on list Btreet to Dodge, east on Dodge to 
■('.'Hi, north on 19th to California, wesi on California to 51st Transfers to 
Farnam street line at list and Farnam. 

Bast Omaha Line. 

Route: From Sherman Avenue easl on Loousl to 29th street, Bast 
Omaha. Oourtland Beach branch extends north from Locust on 13th street, 
Ea>i Omaha, to Oourtiand Beach. Transfers to Sheraan Avenue line at 
Locust and Sherman Avenue. 



STREET AND AVENUE DIRECTORY. 

The numbered streets and avenues run generally north and 
south and are numbered consecutively west from the river. The 
named streets run generally east and west. The lots are numbered 
on the cental system, each block beginning with another hundred 

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except when a numbered avenue runs between numbered streets, 
then the numbers continue consecutively from street to street. 

DODGE STREET IS THE DIVIDING LINE for all num- 
bered streets which cross it and on which the numbers run doth north 
and south. 

Forty-third ave ltf-D 

Forty-fourth ave 16-C 

Forty-fifth ave 17-C 

I -sixth ave 

Forty-sei enth ave 16-B 

Fowler ave 5-G 

Franct s 61 

din si 14-G 

. \ 

Garfield st 28-M 

Gold St.... 

e s1 13-K 

, ave 

Granl st 

-i 

-i j\ 

17-11 

Half Boward st... .....19 G 

II .Hum si l.-,-I 

Barnej st ig i. 

Haw i borne ave i:> <; 

ii orysl . 88-] 

Himebaugh :i\ «• i i; 

II ,kI -i L9-H 

II - ■ -t . 38-M 

1-1) 

Indiana st...... i:»I 

[zard -i 15-L 

Jackson st..... 19 \i 

Jaj aes si vm 

Joni - -i 

Kansas ave i 

Q 81 88-M 

I. .iii rette ave i _ , - 1 

La id B( 8-B 

Lake si r.<-<, 

La!k si 9-G 

Landoa Oourt 19-K 

Larimore as <• 6-G 

Lathrop st iu-K 

I.e.iN enworl ii si 'Jo-M 

Lincoln boule> ard irt-F 

Lincoln si 28-M 

Lindsey ave i.jh 

Locust -i H-K 

Madison ave 12-M 

Manderson si 9-G 

Maple ave 10-J 

Maple st ll-G 

Marinda si . . 24-A 

Marcy st -,>0-M 

Martha st S4-L 

Mary st l-D 

Mason si 20-M 

Mayberry st ^o-B 

Meredith ave 7-G 

Miami st ll-G 

Military a ve 14-D 

Myrtle ave 15-G 

Nebraska ave 3-E 



A st '". 1 

Albert st 

Ames ave 7-G 

Arbor >t 

Arthur st •.- -N 

Atla- -t - M 

B Bl 

Bancroft st 

Bauman ave 

Binney st n-K 

Blaine st 

Blake st 

Blondo si i , c 

BoMie\ ard MS e 

Boulei aid -i 

Boyd si 7-H 

22 N 

Bristol 81 in I 

Browne t I K 

Burdette s1 

Burt -t 

Caldwell si U) .1 

California si 16-L 

Camden ave D 

< lameron si 

Capitol ave ...... .17 L 

Cass -i 17-L 

Cassiue -t ill 

lar si 24-L 

ir si 23-P 

(enter -I I 

Charles si 14-G 

Chicago si . I. 

Clark st k 

Clinton si 

( lommercial si '.- L 

Corby si n-(; 

Crown Poinl ave 

( taming st 16-L 

( lurlew La ae 57-K 

Curtis ave .1 

Dst 28 l* 

nport si iT-L 

Decatur st l; (J 

Dodge st - i. 

Dorcas st 

Douglas st is.], 

Duponi st 24-] 

Esl 28-N 

Elm st j:,- 1 1 

Emmett st 1U-G 

Erskine si 

Farnam si UJ-L 

Fifteenth ave 12-M 

First ave 26- 1 ' 

Florence ave 10-j 

Fort st 5-1 

Fort Omaha ave 4-E 

Fortieth ave 17-E 

Forty-first ave 17-E 



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Newport ave 2-D 

Newton st 10-1 

North Sixth st 18-0 

North Seventh st 17-0 

North Eighth st 15 O 

North Ninth st . .15-N 

North Tenth st 18-N 

North Eleventh st 18-N 

North Twelfth st 18-N 

North Thirteenth st 18-M 

Nort h Fourteenth st 18-M 

North Fif teem h st 18-M 

North Sixteenth st 18-L 

North Seventeenth st 18-L 

North Eighteeni h st 18 L 

North Nineteenth ave 12-L 

North Nineteenth st 18-L 

North Twentieth st 18-K 

North Twenty-first st 17-K 

North Twenty-second st 17-K. 

North Twenty-third st 17-K 

North Twenty-fourth st 15- J 

North Twenty-fifth st 18-J 

North Twenty-sixth st 17- J 

North Twenty-sixth ave 16-1 

North Twenty-seventh ave 18-1 

North Twenty-eighth st .14-1 

North Twenty-ninth st 15-1 

North Thirtieth st 18-H 

North Thirty-first st 14- K 

North Thirty-second st 14-H 

North Thirty-third st 14-G 

Noil it Thirtv-four h st 14-G 

North Thirty-fourth ave 9-G 

North Thirty-fifth st. 14-G 

North Thirty-sixth st 14-G 

North Thirty-eishth st 17-F 

North Thirty-eighth ave 12-F 

North Thirty-ninth st 15-R 

North Thirty-ninth ave 15-E 

North Forty -second st lo-D 

North Forty Third st 17 D 

North Forty-fourth st 17-D 

North Forty-sixth st 16-C 

North Forty-seventh st 17-B 

North Forty-eighth st 16- B 

North Forty-ninth st 18-E 

North Fifty-first st 17- A 

North Fifty-second st 2A 

North Fifty-third st 18 A 

North Fifty-third av«> 2-A 

North Fifty-fourth st 17-A 

Oakst 25-M 

Ogden st 2o-M 

Ohiost 12-G 

Old Thirteent h si 27-N 

Olin ave £6-M 

Ontario ave 27-L 

Pacific st 21-M 

Pagest 16-E 

Parker st 13-G 

Park Wilde ave 22-0 

Patrick ave 13-G 

Paul st 15-L 

Phelps st 88-M 

Pierce st 21-M 

Pinest 22-0 



Pinkney st 10-G 

Poppleton ave 21-H 

Pratt st 9-G 

Redick ave 2-F 

Kees st., 21-J 

Kuggles st 8-H 

S t Mary's ave 20- J 

Sahler st 8-H 

Saratoga st 10-M 

Saratoga ave 6-K 

Seward st 14-G 

Sherman ave 13-L 

Sherwood ave 12-M 

Shirley st 23-1 

Sixteenth ave 12-L 

So. First st 26-P 

So. Second st 22-P 

So. Third st : 22-P 

So. Fonrth st 22-P 

So. Fifth st 22-0 

So. Sixth st 20-O 

So. Seventh st 20-O 

So. Eighth st 20-O 

So.Ninthst 21-N 

So. Tenth st 21-N 

So. Eleventh st 21-N 

So. Twelfth st 21-N 

So. Thirteenth st 21-M 

So. Fourteenth st 21-M 

i-o. Fifteenth st ... .21-M 

So. Sixteenth st 21-M 

So. Seventeenth st 20-L 

So. Seventeenth ave 20-L 

So. Eighteenth st 22-L 

So. Nineteenth st 21-L 

So. Nineteenth ave 23-L 

So. Twentieth st 22-K 

So. Twenty-first st 21-K 

So. Twenty-second st 21-K 

So. Twenty-third st ','4-K 

So. Twemy-fourth st 19- J 

So. Twenty-fifth st 2r>-J 

So. Twenty -sixth st 19-J 

So. Twenty-eighth st 20-1 

So. Twenty-ninth st 20-1 

So. Thirtieth st -O-H 

So. Thirty-first st 19-H 

So. Thirty -first ave 18-H 

So. Thirty-third st 20-G 

So. Thirty-fourth st 21-G 

So. Thirty-fifth st 2-OG 

So. Thirty-sixth st 19-F 

So. Thirty -seventh st 20-F 

So. Thirty-eighth st 20-F 

So. Thirty-ninth st 20-B 

So. Fortieth st 20-E 

So. Forty-first st 20-D 

So. Forty-second st 20-D 

So. Forty-third st 20-D 

So. Forty-fou rth st 19-D 

So. Forty-fifth st 21-D 

So. Forty -sixth st 18-C 

So. Forty-eighth st 18-B 

So. Forty-ninth st 22-B 

So. Fifty-first st 21-B 

So. Fifty-second st 21-A 

So. Fifty-third st 21-A 



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So. Fifty-third avc 21-A 

So. Fifty-fourth si 20-A 

Bpaulding st - I , 

Spencer si i<i-K 

Sprague st -II 

Spring «t 

Spruce st 1J-K 

Sycamore st i l-L) 

Taylor st 7 H 

Twenty-first ave 19-K 

Twenty-fourth ave m-J 

Twenty-fifth ave 19-J 

Twenty-sixth ave 80-1 

Twenl j -seventh ave 21.1 

Twenty-eigbtb ave 18-1 

Twenty-ninth a\ e I 

Thirtieth ave 21-H 

Tbirty-flrsl ave .'ill 

Thirty-seeouU a\« > II 



Thirty-fifth ave 20-G 

Thirty-sixth ave 17-F 

Thirty -eighth ave 80-E 

Valley St 27-W 

Van Camp ave 88-L 

Vane s1 l-M 

Vernon ave 2-E 

Vinton si 25-M 

Wakeley >t i:-l> 

Walnut st 85-1 

Webster si 16-L 

Webster ave i-.M 

Whitmore bt... 1-M 

Williamsl :. M 

Will Bt 10-K 

Woolworth ave 82 II 

Wortbington si 2£ N 

Wright -i ..... 85 I 

Yai. ssl .... i:;-ll 



STREET DIRECTORY 



NORTH PROM DODOK 

l Dodge 

9 Capitol .\\ e 
8 Davenporl 

i ( ' 1 1 1 1 

6 California 
; Webster 

8 Burl 

9 Cuming 

NORTH Of CUMING 
ON 84th. 

10 Izard 

n Michigan A \ e 
12 Nicholas 

18 Indiana Ave 

14 Caldwell 

15 Paul 

16 Hamilton 

17 Charles 
IS Seward 

19 Franklin 
80 Clark 

21 Decatur 

88 Parker 
'23 Grace 

24 Blondo 

2n Patrick Ave 

26 Burdette 
87 Grant 
28 Brskine 

89 Lake 

30 Ohio 

31 Miami 

32 Corby 
38 Maple 

34 Kendall 

35 Locust 



36 Binnej 

37 Win 

ncer 

nt/.- 
10 Emmetl 
ii Lathrop 
42 Bristol 
i.{ Plnckney 
H Lalk 
i.". Pratt 

46 Manderaon 

47 Bpaulding 

18 Laird 

19 Bprague 
50 Bahler 
bl Hovd 

53 Taylor 
53 A m. - A\ e 
.".i Meredith 

.">."> low ler 

56 Larlmore 

mil 
;>s Baratoga 
59 Brown 
tin ( 'aimien 

61 Fori 

62 Brighton 

63 Westei □ 

64 Himebaugh 

65 It. Omaha 

66 Crow n Point 

67 Kansas 

68 Nebraska 

69 Curtis 

70 Vernon 

71 Bedick 

72 Hauman 

73 Newport 

74 May 

75 Ida 

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76 Whitmore 

77 Vine 

BOI in i n« >m DOOQR 

i Dodge 
8 Douglas 

3 I amain 

4 Harney 

5 Howard 

6 Jackson 

; .l.-ne-, 

8 Leavenworl h 

9 Marcj 
10 Mason 
n Pacific 

18 Pierce 

L3 Poppleton Ai e 

It William 

15 Woolworl h A ve 

16 Biekory 
,: Center 

rcaa 

19 Marlha 

80 Castellar 

21 Vinton 

SOUTH OF VINTON 
ON 24TH. 

32 Bancroft 

23 Blaine 

24 Valley 

25 A So. Omaha 

26 P So. Omaha 
T t C Po. Omaha 

28 I) SO. Omaha 

29 E, etc., in alphabe- 
tical order. 



DISTANCES FROM OMAHA TO 



MILES 

Ann Flarbor, Mich 742 

Atchison, Kan 158 

Atlanta, Ga 1024 

Augusta, Ga .1195 

Austin, Texas 931 

Baltimore, Md 1292 

Beatrice, Neb 95 

Bismarck, N. D....... . 620 

Boise City, Idaho 1354 

Boston, M ass 1525 

Buffalo, N.Y 1026 

Burlington, la 296 

Bute, Moit 1128 

Cedar Rapids, la 273 

Charleston, S. C 1329 

Cheyenne, Wyo 519 

Chicago, 111 491 

Cincinnati, O 757 

Cleveland, 848 

Colorado Springs, Col 578 

Council Bluffs, la 3 

Creston, la 106 

Dallas, Texas 675 

Davenport, la 319 

Deadwood, S. D 591 

Denver, Col *■■■ 538 

Des Moines, la 145 

Detroit, Mich 775 

Dubuque, la 352 

Emporia, Kas 238 

Fort Wayne, Ind 639 

Fort Worth, Texas 675 

Fremont, Neb 38 

Galveston, Texas 1110 

Grand Island, Neb 153 

Grand Rapids, Mich 672 

Hannibal, Mo 339 

Hastings. Neb 154 

Helena, Mont 1131 

Hot Springs, Ark 791 

Indianapolis, Ind 602 

Iowa City, la 265 

Jacksonville, Fla 1371 

Kansas City, Mo 205 

Kearney, Neb 196 

Laramie, Wyo 573 

Lawrence, Kas 238 



MILES 

Leavenworth.. Kan 178 

Lincoln, Neb 55 

Little Rock, Ark 723 

Los Angeles, Cal 2012 

Louisville, Ky 689 

Macon, Ga 1215 

Memphis, Tenn 689 

Milwaukee. Wis 577 

Minneapolis, Minn 382 

Mobile, Ala 1055 

Montreal, Canada 1327 

Muscatine, la 308 

Nashville, Tenn 735 

Nebraska City, Neb 48 

New Orleans, La 1083 

New York City, N . Y 14C3 

Niagara Falls, N. Y 1001 

Ogden, Utah 1031 

Oskaloosa, la 204 

Ottumwa. la. 221 

Peoria, 111 : 391 

Philadelphia, Pa 1313 

Pittsburg, Pa 959 

Plattsmouth.Neb 21 

Portland, Me 15K9 

Portland, Ore 1884 

Racine, Wis 553 

Rock Island, 111 321 

Sacramento, Cal 1774 

St. Joseph, Mo 132 

St. Louis, Mo 415 

St. Paul, Minn 372 

Sa.t Lake City, Utah 1068 

San Francisco, Cal 1864 

Santa Fe, N. M 945 

Sayannah, Ga 1318 

Seattle, Wash 1954 

Sioux City, la 98 

!- outh Omaha, Neb 4 

Spokane, Wash 1513 

Springfield, 111 742 

Tacoma, Wash 1913 

Terre Haute. Ind 577 

Topeka, Kan 222 

Tuscon, Arizona 1465 

Waco, Texas 828 

Washington, D. C 1311 



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Galena Oil Works, 

(Limited,) 

Franklin, Pennsylvania. 

Galena Oils are in exclusive use upon about 90 per cent of 
the total railway mileage of the United States, Canada and 
Mexico, and are the standard railway lubricants of America. 

The principal railways of the American Continent use Galena 
Oils, Siblej-'s Perfection Valve Oil and Perfection Signal Oil. 

To illustrate what can be done when these oils are used, we 
quote the following- from the Locomotive Engineer of a recent 
date. We do not know the author, but use his article because it 
is interesting and demonstrates the superiority of our oils. 

" "We are convinced that the run made over the Chicago," 
" "Burlington & Quincy from Chicago to Denver, deserves to" 
'• "be considered the most extraordinary run made. The dis-" 
"tance, 1,025 miles, was covered in exactly 1,069 minutes." 
"actual running time. This was only a fraction less than" 
"one mile a minute for the longest continuous run ever" 
"made by any railroad company. A notable thing about" 
"the run was that no special preparation was made for the" 
"trip. The various engines that pulled the train were" 
"those selected as most convenient, and the crews were" 
"those accustomed to the engines. There were no dela^-s"' 
"from hot boxes or any other cause, and it looks as if" 
"trains could be run daily over that long distance and 1 ' 
"make the time of that special train." " 

The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy uses Galena Oils and 
Sibley's Perfection Valve Oil exclusively and have done so for 
years. The same may be said of all the great railways running 
into and out of Chicago and other principal cities of the Ameri- 
can Continent, both East and West, North and South. If you 
desire further proof of the economy of our oils and the economy 
of their use. we will furnish it cheerfully. 

Respectfully, 

GALENA OIL WORKS, Limited, 

CHARLES MILLER, President. 
General Office and Works, Franklin, Pa. 

New York Branch Office, 295 Pearl St. 

Chicago Branch Office, 13 5 Jackson St. 

Cincinnati Branch Office, 401 Neave Building. 

Canada Branch. Office and Works. Toronto, Canada. 

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